#549. Why Do Drops of Water Flatten and Disappear after a Time?

  —The Reason Why, 1869

His body so close I hear
             the slight cicada hum of his cells,
and he slips away—
                                       the lake is all              eyes     and
ears     and waves       catching him in its sway.

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