in blades of grass ants follow a guide, a following unseen by boots mangling terrain, like sea glass, like years of forming, one takes time to care for one they made.
the bed they lay in the following night, many strings of nights- is like ash, grey dirt piled for thousands of spoken dates, years- days following days, until he came and took the days and made them years, and told us what the years were but not what they meant to the bulbous rocks, or how seven days made sixty two moons a sixth from the sun.
on purpose.
or if he meant to **** the girl.
or if it were naivety.
the water trickled reflections of death, birth; frog legs that looked like bullhead lilies.
his scars, sutures, shared bones, they made him together like the together we fight against.
a monster, unlike a monster this gaseous air has seen, or gasped, or choked on. A monster like no other, that found us here and taught us to teach each other to drown and forgive and drown again.