In this land of water and
mist, the
sages
descended from
the mountains
as tall waterfalls and assumed the face of
salmon leaping upstream.
Water drives around a bend,
sounding
like a note drawn
through a muted trumpet,
the
one Miles played, sending
psalms careening through a universe to where, at some
point,
all
certainties
disappear.
Lines gauge themselves.
Words, or visions, rise and
fall.
In the end
neither a bang nor a whimper will make sense
anymore.