Bayou for Blood (Poem)

sometimes,

i can still smell the river,

the scent of dark mud,

the stain

of swamp mire

beneath my skin.

like the slime

and blood

of catfish carcasses

spreading out

across the wood

of a bayou dock.

bvk, 2019.

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