Tiny ankles hang down from a wooden bridge over the bayou- and my friend and I stare at the black water and point at all the furniture legs jetting out of the blackness as if they were Cyprus knees— and he says to me “Someone said there’s at least a hundred bodies in there” and without hesitation or a moment of silence for the uncertain yet forgotten Dead I say, “Bodies float, so we would see them if that were true” and he replied, after a brief moment of thought, “Maybe they’re tied to all the couches or stuffed in the refrigerators” and I couldn’t believe how many house hold appliances have been repurposed to host all these passed souls in the bowels of the swamp and with a swing of my leg, too swift— my left shoe dropped and hovered on the water where lily pads should have been