Lookout

Nothing in sight but water’s deferrals,
deflections, its million-galloned grief;
though sometimes, when the light is angled so
as to prism inside the waves’ tips,
it seems we’re actually anchored in fields:
that we could drop off and land on our feet
in a rich plough-land confected with frost,
in mud flats, or sand dunes. We could forget
dry land is a dream in the dream of it.