What Cal Sees in the Dream

If Cal Sees --
Listen,
It's in his Dreams 

if under the water they brushed past

each other 

if each finger or toe in the drift and lift

of hair or coat 

if there was untanned throat 

if they floated

until finally ..

if for minutes or hours the bottom

if the solid bottom

if solid bottom was their cot.  

And then if. 
If as is the way of small things, drift 

if lice and leaches 

if pebbles

if fish kiss and nip a lip 

if an open eyelid

if closed 

if stuff in their coat pants shirt cheek pockets

if any small corner swished the spit of the picnic

if the dates the lemon patties 

if all of what they ate before

if the boat...

listen: 
it’s how you know something’s 

full you know? when you're pouring it in the dark 
it’s when the pitch of that pour shifts 
it shifts, and
it's the tip of your thumb hovering

it's inside the rim when what’s wet/what's warm hits 
it's the hover

it's when you stop pouring when you move the thumb

                        or first finger away and sway away from

                        the bloat and float away from the blanket

it's when they're covered at last covered 
it's while I sit

it's against this pine bed 
it's when I see through the legs of the preacher

and he's so kind 
and he blocks some of my view 
and the boy and boy and boy

and boy and girl brought out pumped clean 
and those small fish
and leaches

and pine needles squeeze 
out between the open gate of teeth