The Lost Sea
Sweetwater, Tennessee
No one knows
how large the largest
underground lake
in America might be.
One wet cavern room
opens to the next, again
again, another.
Once, a jaguar lost
himself on the Lost Sea
shore and left his bones
in the dark with
the cave fishes.
Once, I asked a friend:
if we can lose a whole sea
to blind trout and fossils
what can we ever keep?
Silly poet, she said.
The Lost Sea has been
right here the whole time.
