Found

We were family but the fish enchanted me.
Flashing their scales and sending up bubbles like smoke signals.
Then - I was more naked than them, stripped even of skin -
Floundering fluid limbs, frozen.
Lost.
A forest of legs passes me by.
A million eyes dust over my scalp.
My jaw hardens like cement.
Strangers are the enemy. Do not speak.

 
Solar systems evolve while I am being found.

This Year

The fir pines wonder

who will reach the heady heights

of christmas tree fame