An Examination

Nearly happy.
That great lake.
Naive,
Had idea what
watched throat beneath,
marching, massed.
Precautions
clear leads
catapulted lashing
holiday anglers - cram
along bank and - .
What leaned that,
that distance as gathered.
Leads and earthworms.
Catching weary migrants,
towards spawning gravels.
What dazzle -
wandering along lake's
towards shag-headed
Nearly America. Back.
Away. That lake-
was many -

A.
Half.
sleepwalkers a a tape,
a doorway
and dark.
An maze and.
What? said
Search, search.'
Had heard lake.
Labyrinth. What
at heart maze? doorway
Masterfully
heads
dead, reversals,
dreamy, baffled,
monomaniac half-search, half-
any

Was that maze's?
What lay?
And head
had. dead face.
dead, place.
and (as, as gazed across incandescence)
and dead.