#drink me
just cuz my little rivers not a mighty ocean lots of people flock to see or even know about
just cuz it's not the main attraction
for vacationers looking for life changing wisdom
just cuz in fact you'd never know it’s here
unless I told you
took you by the hand and went downhill from bearfield cave
(
veer left a little by that stand of birch
swish through leaves
invisible as rust
)
just cuz my rivers tiny
and sometimes in the summer sun it disappears completely
leaving thirsty chalklike rocks to bathe in filtered sun and wait for rain
quietly
in solitude
cuz you and me are probably
the only ones who ever come here
to make love on the sloping granite
crunching leaves
and crumbling sandstone
just because my rivers tiny
trickles
a pretty rivulet
you touched
your lips
to once
and sometimes has to sidle under shining sheets of ice
to make it through
the winter
doesn't mean
it isn't made
of water
(2015)