the sun’s glitter reflects off the water
which pools and whirls into
pale pink with purple hues
light catches around all the edges of your body
i lay back and watch the steam rise from the water
the way the smoke ends from a chimney
before it drifts into the small century of the sky
i keep telling everyone i love someone and it’s you
but i hadn’t thought to tell you this?
the earth splits open like rocks
the still water turns to a massive waterfall
between the shifting of the lithospheric plates
and then
gone
so calmly, you say
“look,
the earth could swallow us whole”