ache index high at the marsh today
one caddisfly larva in its jeweled case
drowns stop all the clocks
sinks millennia into sediment
reminds me of tortured and hanged girl
dumped in Uchter Moor
sixteen for so long then
uncovered reconstructed so we know
a sister daughter lover
murdered two thousand years ago
looks a lot like Jennifer from the library here
shoes on a wire impossible desire
In love with forbidden person
equals seven on the scale I keep
to measure my confusion
informational sign by the burial mound explains
the bottom layer’s called benthos
and it’s alive with dead tissues
so maybe someday we rise
dry & see the sky again love
two wood ducks
mated for a season fly up
