Artefact

You say

morning people

aver the sun

spilt homilies from

hands bent to dismiss

for too long

I refuse to let things pass

jealousies, an arc weld heat

the bronze, once globulous and molten

rigid in that deceptive, ugly shape

of desert rivers 

I will lay here

for a thousand years

inconsolate as sand

until I almost evaporate

still, that mica glint

when you pass and

almost catch my eye

Is

as bright as drowning

once again