Pose and wait

Lakes pose questions and wait for answers.
What is the color of the underside? When do your lungs become heavy? Can you resist sinking?
What is the weight of the palms of your hands? How do shapes lay across water? What is the buoyancy of leaving?
What is the shade of stillness? When will the sun set? Can you wait?

The Dickinsonian oracle weighs the water once again:

I could not drink it, Sweet,
Till You had tasted first,
Though cooler than the Water was
The Thoughtfulness of Thirst.
(E. Dickinson, 816)