in the beginning, silence

i.

when I was a Willow, I wanted to know
Wind, so I bent close
to you, River,
I shivered with delight,
and now the passage of time
marks our return
and we are humans,
I tremble with your touch,
You are water inside my earth,
breath upon my skin,
your lips speaking and parting
this silence
with poems.

ii.

I love you as the wild geese love the sky,
as clouds drift over the canopy of leaf and bark,
leave their impression;
images we have
seen, links to broken toys, to faces we have known,
to angels of fire, standing guard

iii.

homeward bound,
emerald mansions we leave,
this unquenchable thirst,

Love.