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Like Noah's wife on the tenth or fifteenth night of rain,
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she would stand in the window and realize that the world was really lost.
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And those outside would scarcely know her,
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so sadly was she changed.
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Before she had been fleshed in air, and clothed in nakedness, and
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mantled in cold, and her very bones were only slender
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things like shards of ice.
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She had haunted the orchard out of preference,
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but she could walk into the lake
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without ripple or displacement,
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and sail up the air invisibly as heat.
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And now, lost to her kind, she would almost forget them,