MY WORDS FAIL HER

She dived
into the poem

the words closing
about her

like the sliver light
of water.

She swam underwater
from stanza to

stanza she
laughing to her self

as I tried to trap her
in the nets of thought

she throwing off
each

baited word
that dared

to hold her
though I turned

the pen again &
again

unable to
catch her

"as
she
is"


mythical mermaid
newly minted lover.