A dense fog slips over
the pond's abyss,
preventing it from fathoming the depths
and lengths of its own being.
Fingers: ropes
stretching
until they become a soul.
We walked hands held
fingers entwined until the moisture between us had circu-ambulated,
and we could breathe, again
our own breaths, breathing
together
on the planet with a local address in
a cosmos known
as data sent home.
Fog lifts,
and the pond is
not
what
it seemed to be.