A Backwoods Lake

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Nancy!

  My inspiration:

  http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/prose-poetry-plays/2/the-black-lake

  Just discovered this remarkable writer!

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  compound complex

  Threw myself backward to a boulder lichened a
  verdigris hue, praying its stolid stance would at
  one with me become, stopping a downward slip.

  Trembling, useless hands grabbed behind me in a
  futile effort to latch onto the permanence of stone
  to earth held fast through eons of erosive assaults.

  Soon did it seem that the Devil's own maelstrom had
  no desire for my wretched soul: this man's descent to
  the land below stopped short as the sky funneled down.
  
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  compound complex

  Topsy-turvy had my world become, a microcosm
  compared to this shifting of heaven to earth, earth
  to heaven that paraded past an irrelevant man who

  Just happened to be on the scene when a cosmic sweep
  of heaven's own luminaries was wrought, channeling the
  celestial vault downward, downward into a lake unlike any

  Other on the vast but limited expanse of an orb chosen, I would
  guess, to serve as receptacle of an unfolding new world of bright
  and glory: misty moon shines forth, enshrouded stars glow anew.
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  compound complex

  She peers into a water whose blackness is obsidian,

  Whose depth is leagues greater than that of an

  Atlantean trench that swallows, to this day, unwary

  Mariners in search of mysterious ports of call.

  Is it a wandering lost love whom she seeks, him in

  Search of El Dorado, a hidden city of overgrown

  Ruins, an impassable verdure that beckoned a foolish

  Man to abandon home and hearth and true love?

  The woman looks in vain because the water is no

  More capable of fathoming than the heart of

  The man who abandoned her when seduced by

  Those elusive riches that called from below . . .