Thanks, Andrew, Michael, Gail, Siham, Gregory. This was a new kind of writing for me, and I found it very difficult: responding to current event, a sort of 'occasional poetry' I guess.
I actually thought of dedicating it to you, Andrew, but I knew the site would play with the formatting a bit, so I didn't want it to be too fastidiously designed as is my habit. The epigraph I had intended (along with a link to the story) was a quote from the article (as are the closing lines of each stanza):
“The lake had always been what mattered, not the ground.”
Nemo
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