I wake in the water, holding my breath while light resonates against a blue-like white vat, in my clothes drifting in the water the minimal waves of the surface reflect a liquid silver mirror barrier, except for the dark underside of mossy bacteria gathered on the surface feeding on my soul and bathing in the world beyond it, thinking of the bottom in sleep the sound of my heartbeat and awake my air isn’t enuf, it vanishes into my blood and like hunger in starvation for the winded world and rescinded swirls bursting above it all, the splashing and running water of soaked wool, of soaked leather, of soaked bones and rusted blades, some forgotten pool in old stone of an older mountain as if surrender or suffer or sentenced to a fountain of youth, long in the tooth my hunger stares for me, off into the woodlands of these wetlands, these marshes old as my clothes drain and waters swirls against me with my stair step exit to a muddy morose margrove preserve, and in daylight long beneath clouds that curve a tree stands and stares at me, the green leaves of relentless life in sunshine and overgrowth, looking at my waterlogged wastrel stance among the verdancy endless lost to nature where sound travels by force and nature rules without effort, watching me choose which sight is from my own eyes and the tears of the rage of rising tides of terror cried to fill the cemetery bath from behind me of memory and magic without history to tell or know, and so show my strength to self and surrender to the neverending mystery and without magic climb the cathedral of immortal trees to find the daylight in its purest form and without sound and thoughts in evil silence do fall the least forlorn attacking an animal of the wooded lands and feasting on blood and bone in my teeth and hands to fill the ancestral animal possessing my mind from each distance of the fates of time, returning my thoughts to my own that I may find the home for where I rest, or enemy to practice the game that almost killed me, in my malevolent malignant mercurial slumber, to deliver the monster likewise under.