River

Write and rewrite and rewrite [river] unreachable upper reaches where fish and mammal swerve under insect surfaces down spraying falls along thickening currents towards leaf-topped floods birds dip, then the cut banks and stony edges toward bends over flats minuscule bubbles and sky-shining corners feeding roots into shining sky again upward where before falling black fell with fire’s lightness of touch, wondering sometimes with seas rising turn the mouth tidal as waters transport salt upstream then out again with rains tempestuous soothing, then humans contouring an imagined solution to what end as river days turn night and respite and reignite