The poet
regards her as Titan-born
and belonging to the older world.
Seen as
the ditch it dug, a dried-up stream
is easily crossed, like an old art movement,
or a shaman who's chanting in the dark, to
summon the dead.
A woman
steps rock to rock over the river,
her route disappearing behind her. "It was
only a small circle for her dance."
Two steps,
a slight slip,
and the water
ripples
as we whirl and run,
toward
the sea.