It's Still Life

Deep Water

That black lake lies flat,
lessons for a river,

and there’s a far away tree,
punctuation at the lake’s end,

I want you, it says.

Thin little skinny tree,
as if fiction was a fact of death.

Deep water is what it is,
a fear that says it wants you.

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