Where the river meanders for the sky’s embrace Her lovelorn bank pines in the banyan’s shade Blue ripples sing to soothe her travel’s stress Lay me when all poems are dead in my head.
Write me an epitaph here rests the river poet Who loved the cotton clouds mirrored on her breast As her tides rose high laden with desire’s weight He broke away from chains to madly sail her crest.
Where shines the moon makes the lover’s pathway Flows quiet the river in her waves shadows sway Night heron’s feet kiss her soft feathered bed Lay me in silence when all poems are dead.
Lay me soft down make for me a space On her alluvial soil in her riverine grace In her diurnal shine and night’s saline kiss The river poet would find his eternal peace.