River
Memories
River memories of sand and
sky
Like a fuzzy TV image
Coming in and out
Pictures from distant
satellites
An echo of cosmic fugue
Her dark eyes gazing
quizzically
At future horizons
Pine trees looming silently
Over sun blinding river banks
Tan dunes piled high
In Saharan desolation
Her gentle body in bow
A radiant Bodhisattva
Out shining forest glow
Our paddles plying water
With gentle collaboration
On an unfinished poem