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The body is ninety
percent water, ninety
percent thirst.
I have been searching
for a mineral
that drowns want.
We lost our everything,
she said, which said everything
about loss. My accumulation
dictates my ruin; it's different
from your dismantling, which
can happen slowly or all at once.
What's crucial is a total
inventory, which may reveal
some one element not obliterated.
We lost our everything,
she said - we - she repeated,
meaning the we-ness remained,
which in the end must be the seed
of re-beginning, the seed that
divines the plow, the ounce
of dirt, the memory of digging.
The other fish think me proud
or discontented with my station.
The birds think I'm beneath them.
Even submerged I am out
of my element, which I fear
the Lord in his haste
forgot to invent. I sent
a letter to him once, pleading:
make me this or make me that,
limbo is hell upon a fish.
I got a message back. It read:
Don't despair, I made you purposely
that way - bounding breathless
into space, the way I made
Adam and Eve, flitting
between the field and ruined gardens
of each other's airy arms.
