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slow, slow


fast, fast

night mud crawls up his legs like insect legs

drenched to the skin, mired to the knees


here amid the root-maze
amid the trickling dripping flood
amid the tangling treacherous water-grass

here he is lost in the night.
there are no stars.
there is no moon.
dark swallows him entire.

this is the deep of the deep
this is the heart of the heart
the center of the night

this is the place he will drown.


fast, fast. slow, slow.

sinking.

on the surface of the still black water:
a faint reflection
distant
serene:

marshlight.