Wednesday, February 19, 2025

How We Stopped Time

At the confluence of North and South Forks of the American River near Auburn California 

The convergence is as choppy
As an ash scattering at sea

But the wrinkles they thread
Create time as they find the one

Every time. The ancient slate awaits
Its writing and then erasing

Of flow that keeps movement forward 
Albeit Nordic white, and cold as truth 

Turbulent as any family's
Ritual spilled drink

Hurled down as a lost opportunity
To haul the puzzle out of space 

And let us feel the rise and fall,
The gleanings of the flux

Which inure to us at the moment
Harmony strikes,

What the mountain lioness
Calls her home GPS.