VIII
"Backwaters"


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See him in ive & in pain
(mad Lorca)
see him in cypresses.
Dead in his eye,
in his tongue.
Stagnant water lies over him.
Poplars cut deep
& glass willows.
Water is locked in his heart.
In his eyeballs.
Dead air.
Metal branches.