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The speaker recalls salt along a creek while running from a rope, moves into the source's folage image and prayer against fate and wild seas, then declares that they are lost.

Nearness to creation and the final loss remain in tension. The fragment gives no geography or event beyond its own creek-and-sea images.

'Tidewater' moves from 'Running from the rope / We sensed the salt' to 'The micronism of a folage / A prayer in hope', and ends 'And all the wild seas also / We are lost'.

A short flight toward the sea that ends in loss; micronism and folage are kept as typed.