Monday, July 8, 2013

No Fishing, Please

They found him bloated and floating downstream.
He had been missing for several days.

Police said there was nothing to indicate foul play,
likewise, no one could think of a reason he would

kill himself. They said it must have been an accident.
A few days ago they found a young woman,

she was only twenty-three. A man had been walking
his dog along the waters edge when he saw her,

face down, hair reaching across like blonde
tendrils. I don't like to read the news most days-

I'd rather sit by the water and think of better things,
better times, summers long passed.

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