Nessie

But you knew Nessie was everywhere right?

Try this: The next time you float over water

More than 100 feet deep jump.

Tread water or swim in circles, but just be.

Allow that sensation of oily immensity

To glide under your feet, slither

Along those hairs on your leg

Standing out like antennae, detecting

The tiniest hint of what must be dangerous, somehow.

Once, while water skiing I had to

Zoom over to the other side of the wake

In order to avoid some monstrous calamity

Just beneath the surface. As I cut hard to the left

A plate-sized eye, offered a slow wink, which was

Part thanks and part conspiracy

Nessie acknowledging that She knew that I knew

Of the astonishing frigid depths

Of water, and of life and of human souls.