<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Vermilion<p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">The red eye </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">of a loon</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">for vision,</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">depths of water </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">who can say </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">what will pass </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">as, protection</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">reeds </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">edges of place</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">are only</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">temporary,</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">circling </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">filters the blues</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">and greens</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">as they have </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">always done </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">dives for minutes</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">crayfish, light re-</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">fracted, what could be</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">slowed </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">just enough </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">to catch a meal</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">or your eye,</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">indelible flash, </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">a crimson ribbon</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">ablaze, crossing </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">the lake</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">where you stand </span></p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span class="long-line">watching </span><br class=""><span class="long-line">just then</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">with the grasses</span><br class=""><span class="long-line">from shore.</span></p><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Molly McGlennen</div></div></body></html>