a hemorrhaging flood having

flashbacks--too lucid to pass away.

making vaster its return...an Ocean

that is given.

paralleling unreachable shores,

plumbing unreachable depths.

far gone and wetter than water,

where a sky drops its mirror to

summon its shards.

where silence detaches enough

to harden its shell.

rolled around the pearled eyes

of behemoths that follow something

larger than themselves.