A line cast, a hope followedFriday, May 20, 2005
An explanation
Imagine me the sea, and you a river
Our relationship the place we come together,
Estuarine, dynamic, often brackish
Ask the moon to govern where you begin and I end
But in the fertile silt you drop at my mouth
I spawn new life, adapted to this margin
Of unpredictability,
I nurse the abundance growing in the dilute brine of our intersection
Flood and withdraw, a tide of changes
While you keep flowing steady by the fingers of grasping land,
And dissipate into the horizon
Imagine me the sea, and you a river
Our relationship the place we come together,
Estuarine, dynamic, often brackish
Ask the moon to govern where you begin and I end
But in the fertile silt you drop at my mouth
I spawn new life, adapted to this margin
Of unpredictability,
I nurse the abundance growing in the dilute brine of our intersection
Flood and withdraw, a tide of changes
While you keep flowing steady by the fingers of grasping land,
And dissipate into the horizon
