The Aqua Line
In the creeping, gripping, decorating vine,
Leaves are sodden by the rain from on high,
And in the pool of a spent aqua line,
Breathes the bud of rose from my heart at its sigh.
This the cloak, the mask made by mist,
As it begins to descend it falls like feathers from a plume,
Into the crease, around all the broken bends,
Manipulated by the contour as it sculptures the volume.
As it meets its lover; the ground at our feet,
Soft delation is felt more than one, less than all,
So it begins a motion that shall appear a retreat,
As it rewinds its progress to the start of the fall.
Then in a moment, that can collect in a glass,
The process begins and from this life springs,
From a wheel-round growth to the post at the grass,
The life of water neither ends, nor begins...
But, if you listen to its music; it sings! It sings!