as if one summer night would stop to kiss the cheek of winter winter my sandaled feet chill, awash in starlight the waves, like a slivered memory pure and silver, carry the faint heartbeat of many things come and gone summered waters blow through their courses of hair in soft syllables to the ear they touch stones of fire alive in the eyes of the mind how many hearts or ripples of moonlight have walked here? here, where new clouds breach ancient skies and stones of rivers of many things come and gone smooth and silver are the drops of time, which wash slivered memories of summer by the light of a cool moon