As sinuous as sexuality Flowing fresh and twisting The stream gathers speed Polishing and chattering Over pebbles and smoothed rocks Busy and multitudinous Rushing and splashing heedlessly on Into and shallow basins On its gathering gravity led progress Inexorably towards the sea The formless community of its kind Riding on currents and winds Soon to mist and cloud the sky And the rain falls down and down To feed the numberless tributaries As the constant cycle rolls on