Magpie #98 The River Flows Gently Smoothly Softly

Magpie #98 The River Flows Gently Smoothly Softly

The River

Flows

Gently

Smoothly

Softly

a gentle man

who sanctimoniously

crosses himself twice

before he delves into her dwelling place

as she barely reaches the river

holding onto branches

softly swaying to the sounds

of riverrocks burblings

twisting and turnings

a slip sliding of over-flow

endless streams of incoming

never held back

trying out his heel to toe stability

trying to stop the endless push by wind

waves cat paws scratch

reclaiming his property rights

eroding his power of tenacity

his backwash banks

sliding into her carried along

her swift-footed stream

mounts water pressure

erode his resolve to his earth, his soil

and then she plows through

his earthen domain

as he

genuflects

in the process

causes her edges

flickery wisps of water

without end

fundamentally

she bears down

asserting her right to resist him

to exist

this old river woman

there where two energies met

God had touched them then

right there

made them one

Earth and River

RiverEarth

first contact had been made

as rocks fused them

melding them like steel

as she refused to remember or recall

the pungent smell of ozone in the process

the night of the thunderous dark lightening

made them merge as one

communicating

waters

pray for your

powerful energies

to set the slaves free

unwound

unbound

unleashed

now formally let go into the wild rafting wilderness

released the hounds

those dogs who howl

when the water reflects the moon

dipping into the refreshing pools

of Bethesda

whose wild horse spirit

layered beneath

deep realms of consciousness

clear visions

of evergreens

lit up like a holy tree

as all is as calm surface

as one would expect

from a woman of means

who'd push these ancient waters

bubbling

over

in

and

through

the aquifer

once atrophied

his lush red clay

slathered as she slithered

her

empathetic powers

aware of every movement

every moment

every electric impulse

ephemeral spray her atomizer

brackish depths

she is an unknown

igniting her sparkling mix

of earth

sky and

firewater

utterly transformed

away

he caresses her

snake-like she

meanders like a banshee

far away

past time

past space

into the holding pattern

she of the two sisters

shores his heart

giving shelter

held in a permanent

whirlpool of twirl

holding eternity

is her element

space echoes endlessness too

the magic red canoe bobs like a life buoy

waiting her toss of hair

a spaceship

voyageur

as this he gives and she take

echoes this exchange

of divine ultra feminine

and sacred entirely masculine

pushing against swells

his thighs waded out to her

her thick brush like seaweed

and trunks of trees

she let go

and he did also

bending into her

eroding her unresolved energies

into a pool of bliss

as her majestic rivers renewed

his fullness slowly unleashed

to oh's and awe's

her mournful mountings

became gentle trickles of raindrops

condensed from passion's

heaving cleaving wanton desires

that tickled her smooth touchable surface

as she closed her eyes and feel sleep

bright green and gold shafts of light

awoke her

this morning time

would

transcend her transparentness

the banks shimmering

leaving her qualifying contours

the thing about water

as it made her

cold and damp

standing there still naked in the sun

the cold breeze sent shivers down

her spiny backbone

essential river woman

shivering with emotion

now the shaking like aspens

recalled how she did convulse

the day his passion enfolded her

her body remembered now

this earth between her skin

with life of the lit sun-tipped

leaves

his energizing powers

earth man magic

snaking around her tributaries

meander hither and yon

around her maiden hair

beyond view

beyond any formal vision

love had known before

Chiccoreal