10-17-18

a diving Grebe
disassembles
the moon

Today I Saw

Today I saw a well known section of the Snake River and imagined everyone in Southern California getting to have a drink of water.

Shoshone Falls

jumpy sleek
 dark ghosts 
appear in the 
 turbulent blue-green
fringe

I am noun made whole
by your verb made flesh

accompany my spring

flower my summer

come to my falls and
envelop my winter

all grass leaps for your laughter

all fires cry for your breath

all trees ache for your mystery

all water boils at our death

soil me with your presence
and cleanse me with your smile

leave me all the better
and stay with me awhile

at peace
near reeds
coots ripple
still water

riding slowly above the spray
forty hawks perch along the pivot

a fall rendezvous
finalizing migration plans through glances

trees reflect
frogs breathe
pond water ripples