write in stone, live in water
every waterfall draws us
as two great truths reveal themselves there:
the need for solidity, as rock holds and holds,
the need for fluidity, as water moves at the heart of life,
I love how much history stone can hold:
memories of sea and of fire, of cataclysm and transformation,
of the human eye who shaped point and wall,
of those who wrote in stone a bit
while most of human lives flows away to be forgotten,
yesterday a storm thundered over us and then up mountain,
and the creek roared with its new charge,
whenever our batteries are running low
water in fall or sea quickens our blood
as we remember the charge to flow with grace and power,
we can write in stone
but we live in water.
July 22, ’12
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