Teeming

We were still

Like the pond undisturbed

Teeming with life

anglers could catch our aquatic gifts if had only a nose for it.

Feet for pound give way to precision

Simply remove the stability of language

And forge an empire of ones and twos

We were still

Like the pond undisturbed

Teeming with life

Underneath a world far from view

Will the posture for posturing end when clams bite back.

Undoubtedly unlikely easily trifled not easily perturbed

I feel like I've lost the skin that kept me together. The binding is gone. The skin now leather, meat now meat.

We lye still like the pond

undisturbed

Teeming with life