Submerged City

           Submerged City

You lie, a city now, beneath the clear

Depths.  You are still but we can see you move

Because we knew you when you filled the sphere

We call the past now. Memory can prove

An old existence:  archeology

Can bring perfection up from underneath

That deep transparent wave-distorted sea.

Sea archeology could search beneath

The present time, but we do not require

That.  You are ever present in our lives

So we do not need searching.  No desire

Will bring you closer than our dreams.  Your wives

Are all omitted from this deepened view.

We see through magnifying depths just you.