Agam Andreas - Detecting a Corpse in the Canal

Playing house in a tree
in nineteen sixty three 

On an afternoon in May
In that water then he lay

First I was shocked at the sight
But afterwards it was pretty banal

On an afternoon in May
From the water where he lay

Under different circumstances
And a different light
The corpse reappeared at night

And in my dreams he dances
out of the water and upon the land
showing me his open muddy hand

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