When you cross the river shallow
who's shadow's falling onto you?
you clutch fundoshi's bare narrow

the swords are there, only two

The river floats in dreamy asking

and answers give the shores of two
where some who wait unmasking
will plunge their spears into you


You think the river might be shallow
and so it drags some fallen heads

of enemies on sleepy meadows
- the shining eye of hungry cat


You think your path is barely broken
where it stops it ever ends
who gave you this regain unspoken

who watches when the river bends

Beneath the float is glitchy coldness

a few morasses and a stone
you step ahead in dreamy boldness
nobody asks where you're gone