Dreadwaters

 sounds and songs and words and lines
paragraphic jungley ropey slick vines
pornography for base poetry divine
slash and hack and ingress deeper
weakness rise as flesh it fails
time weaves chrysalistic wails
protects the gene from wind and sails
the will it stretches like a taut rope bridge
twixt canyon walls 'pon thermal rise
our eyes they fill with our demise
time loops round and round our life

       a path a trail already cut 
— winds over bluff to Neverslut —
       a path we find too violent
         to walk with company