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.)