Lake

Maidenly lake, fathomless lake,

Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes,

Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake

Whom your shore no longer touches.

Your girl was always real to me.

Her bones lie in a city by the sea.

Everything occurs too normally.

A unique love simply wears away.

Girl, hey, girl, we repose in an abyss.

The base of a skull, a rib, a pelvis,

Is it you? me? We are more than this.

No clock counts hours and years for us.

How could a creature, ephemeral, eternal,

Measure for me necessity and fate?

You are locked with me in a letter-crystal.

No matter that you're not a living maid.