Blood Moon Watching

everything hung in heavy blue
dusk air motionless
with unburst clouds and sea mist.

and it seemed to us, then,
that the still water poured
silent, to the very edge of the world

and over.

If we took off our shoes
and let the cool water
lap all the crevices of our souls

if we took off our clothes
and waded in deeper,
if we took off our fears and swam

it would call us,
psiren-like, immense and ancient,
right to the very edge of the world

and over