July 14, 2009

Observations in Water

I. The channel is two

Maybe three feet below

Level of the ground

The creek acts

Like a babbling brook

Not flowing hard enough

To displace rocks

As it did last winter

The rains are done

Summer has come

The water calls to me

To listen, to feel


II. Water seems sentient

Aerating at the surface

Serving as a carrier

Host to dissolved gasses

Like oxygen in equilibrium

Living water streams

Contain solutions of ions

Nutrients exchanges

Gaia’s bloodstream

Fresh water begins

In highland watersheds

Life is water is breath


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