River Spirit

 

Every spring along the Whitewater

I saw that some mysterious hand

Had rearranged the rocks and sand.

The path I followed the summer before

Was slipping off into the water.

I could not figure whose force

Could drive that water among the reeds

& shift its bed

 

& every spring draw me to its side.

Whose muscles uprooted those trees?

Whose fingers patterned those stones along the edge? 

I guessed only the spring thaw

Conjured up the changes

In those sleeping river images.

 

 

 

 


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