WATER RATS

rodents scarce
suddenly flurries
scary rodents
WATER RATS
(scents harsh
wormed flooded
funeral rat tails)
inflammatory!
aerial paper
the rain diving
into fur, promised
seeds, speaking
spaces of rat crusts
sheds similes, dawns
unsettle deep says!
everything snaking time
long variations frantic
the same can course samely
this water spilt happiness in
the empty book, the pages
of The Beguilement Of Dust
(volume eighty-three)