River rock stacks I made while hiking along the Maumee River today. Lay down these words Before your
River rock stacks I made while hiking along the Maumee River today. Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way, straying planets , These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles – and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things. Gary SnyderRiprap -- source link
#nature#rockstacks#hiking#metaphysical#poetry#garysnyder#riprap