sing a reverse burial
the mangrove cryptid
swallows bike frames
its exoskeletal graft
under muddied skins
some old body’s jingle
rings to nervousness
as sludge flesh tickles
a kayak’s hull agape
eyes the scout hall
in a theory of leaving
piers tremble and tip
reading out crab tracks
the membrane of marsh
accretes a wet language
stirs up dried limbs
water arcs through
metals and sediment
of a root saline sweat
stilted and panting the
golem strides inward
egests the stark past
a cellular sovereignty
mapped in tide pulse