9. Another one today.

While watching your girlfriend
on the shore of Lake Monroe
you tell me how this lake was built
on a place called Paynetown
which I heard as Paintown
and saw it fitting that the corps of engineers drowned
the place out after flattening out
the homes that maybe housed your anscestors
or history once. Here is where I remember
how afraid you are of dogs
and although you don’t like swimming much either,
you go out into the lake further
and I go with you.

Pay(in)etown is still
drowning beneath us
while your girlfriend is up on Flat Rock
drawing us maybe, only our heads
like irrelevant buoys;
our first portrait maybe,
after knowing each other for years.
 


-october 2009