Loška Dolina* -

         where are my tears?

They have seeped

beneath stone riverbed - permeable

         cheeks -

creeks leached well below deep-

riven cave systems,

        unnatural flows that bleed lime-white,

join leaden streams, mercurial

aquifers that spawn strange,

         sperm-like troglobites,

sly stygofauna.

One

        day, all may emerge - further

downstream -

Gollum drawn to daylight against will -

        altered      queer       haunted,

calcrete-milky, disgorged

and blue

         with cold, shrunken,

yet,

ferrying

life.

...

*A municipality in Slovenia