death is an always un-grown-up perch
a milli-brother a milli-sister
bobbed when the bobber
when the body goes under
it is not the dead who ask
it is the living who ask
after something living
to keep the dead in
so come with the whole landscape
hang blue distance behind and fields in front
and between
dark forest-fringes to whet the eyes with
and forest-fizz to drink from
and spruce-shoots to chew on
and spit out a lake
and a dragonfly reflected in it
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