Waterborne

 

Today I bring tobacco and ashes to

this place

Your return —

did you love it here?

 

Reveal skin and thought

or not

perhaps too callused

or too raw

Already weight sunk down   touched bottom   came back up

this time

 

Cliche to hope the water purified

but you felt it —

that was something

 

End in water but not like this

sun comes up

bathroom sink kitty litter

ashtray

come back up

this time

 

Will is not enough

mine was absent

 

Touch bottom.

Your cigarette ash floating

away on the river