To gather tension or, as an object with curved sides 
lay at the edge of a steep hill 
Wait submerged in thick syrupy light. 

To wonder, embracing the form as it appears to climb  
Below the ocean, a shining modified eye.  
A ritual of setting stones in place, burning 
desire, and a melancholic deviation toward leaving 

ashes 
dutifully stepped on. 

April 2021