All ye stragglers yes you fall in
some of us loom larger than others
eyes a narrow quarter inch above water rhubarbing
so much to watch skittering Gerridae skinny-legged
pooling surface tension brackish, occasionally cannibalizing
red-eyed trolls nose-flarers superlative combers
beachballers, occasionally nibblers
all this kinesis keeping the insect world a-twitter
until diapause causes us to crawl under leaves