reunion

 Screaming karaoke

until the room is empty

wall to wall

stained and bruised

you engorge

the florid marks

of your bondage

The ecosystem changes down below

in the creek

running shallow

underneath

cathedral ceiling cypress trees

coiled coven snake roots

exhale the stink of decomposing

creatures

fingerling fish

nip dead

skin from my crazing feet

little Vincent lends me his goggles

to retrieve your glasses.

flew off your turn

on the rope swing,

that does not get more complex with age.

we think,

how can we protect this one now

how can we with what little we have

to protect our own