Reflected, You

I

You grew out of the melting daylight and
Bounced on the water like petroleum
Around an old fishing boat whose pilot
Drifts along the lake in a beery sleep.

I was surprised by your audacity --
How you made your bed under his but still
Blushed in the cheeks when he took time to say
That you look beautiful this evening --

And not too soon after the horizon
Swallowed him into deep navy nothing,
You danced with all the other reflections
Before you fell asleep and disappeared

II

He washed his hand of the soup,
which filled the air with mint when it spilled
in the brown water where there was
a silver self looking back

                   
III

Will you always love
A reflection less
Than the other
More important version
Plunging to his grave
From a melting sky?