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BLOATED

If this were a mirror
I’d be floating through the sky
 
a bird finally       fingers splayed like wings
flapping and bumping on a cold breeze
 
but this is my body          still floating
on a large skeleton of water 
 
my eyes wide         pressed up against
the window of the surface
 
a spaghetti string of froth caught
in my teeth               prison bars
 
letting the water in        filling me 
up to drown the trapped prisoner

the back of my neck
though glared at by sunlight
 
stays solid        white           a block of ice 
my body has made a cocktail of the stream
 
I suppose I won’t really know how big it is 
river                     lake                           sea  

until my body is pushed over an edge
or fills up so much it must lie in the wet dirt 
 
from what I see       the sky is at the bottom
ready for me to drift into
 
the birds swooping overhead are
just close enough for me to join them