• The Spring of a cricket;
    his fiddle plays throughout my night
    while I waste away as a ripple
    on wilt-water. As a
    half-hearted moon. As

    a trickling tear from her bell
    that rings silently
    as it falls
    without
    an
    end

    to end at my feet. She stayed
    while mushrooms grew on my
    face. While crickets chirped and
    grass hopped away. While
    the pyres blew smoke.

    She was the prettiest lily,
    but now she is of the water;
    of me. A mountain of ground full of frailty.