The Body

It was your first time coming so
close upon the dead

her body bobbing breasts up
on the slickened surface of the river

tongue over-swollen
eyes all agog

genuinely surprised and
ever so touched that you’d gone all that way just to see

her—

squeezing hard on the hand you ducked
between your legs

rocking and rising from off
the steamed planking

your lip
bitten badly