Greyhound dropped her at the county line
Thumb out camera slung on twine
Pine scent thick as diesel fumes
Walked until the light consumed
Pine pool hums beneath the wire
He watches from the shadowed shore
Telephone poles feed the fire
Waiting for something more
Stalker stands in waders green and torn
Notebook wet with observations born
Measures depth with weighted line
Murmurs data keeps the time
Pine pool hums beneath the wire
He watches from the shadowed shore
Telephone poles feed the fire
Waiting for something more
Water glows but not from moon above
Bioluminescent strange as love
Pine needles float but never sink
Boundaries blur at forest brink
Pine pool hums beneath the wire
He watches from the shadowed shore
Telephone poles feed the fire
Waiting for something more
Transformer buzzes sixty-cycle drone
Voltage bleeds where roots have grown
She lifts her Pentax clicks the frame
Stalker doesn't speak his name
Flash bulb pops the moment caught
Strange water teaches observer
Who watches whom in twilight's hush
Camera lens and water's blush
Negative develops in her trunk
Silver halide midnight junk
Pine pool hums the stalker stays
Telephone poles count the days
Pine pool hums beneath the wire
He watches from the shadowed shore
Telephone poles feed the fire
Waiting for something more
Pine pool hums beneath the wire
Secrets that the pines acquire
Camera clicks the bus arrives
Pine pool hums she survives