As they went their separate ways circling between
earth and sky, the river hidden beneath rocks and
loose sand, where it "peoples the sky with its fish,"
braced before a wall crumbling with its new signs.

Swig water
then climb

to the ancient
symbols, that

rehearsed
our future.

 

 

 

 

peoples the sky: G. Bachelard, Water and Dreams. Dallas, 1983.
"It was almost impossible to believe that they were not absolutely
suspended in air." E.A. Poe," The Dreams of Arnheim." (Quoted
by Bachelard; Ibid.)