Eels
I
winter-water
the hollow
moan of fibreglass
seat grate against gunwales
II
put your hand in
all the way
and black ooze
of water moves
III
drabble to grab
constrict in a drizzle
of grip flux and clench
at wrists
IV
small ones nearly see-through
see through me
frogspawn eyed
and greening
V
tooth and muscle
a tail like feathers
of glass torques
pulsing arm jewels
VI
a slither of skivvers
that shiver me to stone
in their unbarrelling
waist deep
VII
silver shives of unshape
knotting and climbing
gathered in armfuls
back into the drum
VIII
time isn’t
but what is is
a flat hydrophobic
expanse I can’t swallow
IX
there is nowhere
blind as hysteria
a Hebbian indelible
silvered in
X
the winter of memory
forevers
is once upon a time
it lasts