I will not help personify these bodies. They are water. Morning's not a new dress for the lake to wear. Everyone's misgendering the moon, or fabricating sheets of night to pull across their blushing shame before the nudity of stars. I am not your clay. Where do you think I go when you’re not dreaming? Waiting at the bus stop for a future that already came. I will not be your catalogue of grave goods: high status woman with necklace harp and wine. You made a giantess out of the clouds this afternoon. Of course her hair was only gentle rain. I will not help personify these bodies. Do not make me. I will not speak through hands and knees, your death sentences in other mouths. Because you are a drowning thing. And they are water.















