William Repass is a recent graduate from Hendrix College and a “Writer in the Field” for Film International Magazine. He has published poetry and prose in Counterexample Poetics, A-Minor Magazine, The Light Ekphrastic, and Otoliths, with upcoming publications in Gone Lawn and Danse Macabre.---------
blue:
I lose her losing her a loss
to the water to the waters to
water's waver to waves of
water waving in sheets
of blue deep blue
waves heaped
up heaped deeply like
cloth like wet cloth
pleated & pooling the cloth of blue
bedclothes woven in
water wet clothes in a deep
heap of them
selves & closing
round her close around
her curves surrounding her
curvature swerving
carving sluicing
through my nerves
through the pool
of water on the spool
of sleep sloughing wet
shards of sheen I lose
her the swimmer swimming
or asleep deep
ly sleeping in the
pool so dark so
cool so loose
loosely through dream
drip
dripping further & still
further back to farther
away she is a wound
in me & opens
red like a wound or
an azalea.