A Grave

I am not I, I am this

    An island

In a river, waves will come,

And I will remain.

I am not my body,

I am this land,

Eddying, full of life.

I am not a promise;

I am a wave.

A melanistic joke;

    This reptile

Starts as the sun goes down.

And I am then.

• Marianne Moore