precipitation: dew-shine throat: dew-bibe thirst: dew-hank whale: dewephant star: far-dew heart: dew-crank swim: dew-tread springtime: dew-quickening sea: dew-vast to set into a river intending to transact only its breadth but then somewhere just past halfway across you get it in your mind to give that near bank a miss; to chart a creek out past hidden bends to where it meets the brine; or perhaps like a contrary tide at your flood you are thinking about the places where springs begin you are to your own quiet surprise pondering steady now about tracing a current in its twilight and yours up, up to a burbling source: dew-drift death: dew-still duel: dew-letting the east wind, or the west wind: dew-roil thunder: dew-cant lightning: dew-spark cloud: dew-miser tree: dew-cloak sky: dew-arch night: dew-set drought: won’t-dew family: dew-clade chalice: dewcanter overweening pride while in or on water: dewbris a feeling that is like the shout that goes astray before it reaches your voice, which reaches up through your torso and puts heat in your neck, and makes your knuckles go to fight: dew-rile the last days of the minoan thalassocracy: dewcline it is august and you are a little drunk at the old quarry swimming hole, the pals are taking to the water and goddamn so are you, these shoes and this empty wallet and these roman candles need to get off your body; these years, off your body: dew-reel