See through these words, colors,
movements, measures See first
green shoot, see roots taking hold
and up at the source, see
fissure in the ground, see
clear cold water, a spring
See trunk, branch, twig,
flowering of leaf or bud
of needle, see, even if you can’t
See how it rises becoming
brook, becoming creek, rush
of stream, widening, deepening,
see pre-spring sap rising,
see spring flurry of simple
or intricate seed wings
to river ox-bowing, meandering,
banking, absorbing rain, snow, rain
cutting new channels, seeking
Look up and see 150-year
expanse of nurturing canopy
See how roots took hold, how
river joins river
becomes salty, how
words seek full ocean of knowing
