You moved through
like high tide
in heavy rain—muddied,
filled with beer
cans, broken
limbs, dangerous
against the banks—
your fast moving,
your hard beauty,
the high-water mark
I stare at with disbelief
and fear—
the three inches of rusty water
I carry everywhere.

Jason Marak

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