Bear Swamp Reflections: Zits

From Ruth~~For Lauren

The River and the Sea

"The river is within us, the sea is all about us . . ."

— T S Eliot (Four Quartets)

How does the river run within the sea?

Like the coyote, bounding deer-like

in the soy bean field last evening,

and behind him the honeyed sun

a young girl’s hair, cascading among

the trees. He distanced gradually

from the road we cycled, his body

now disappearing beneath

the shrubby, wavy green, now

reappearing in the bob and bounce

of a cork retreating from shore. Like

a dream. Like a secret stone that leaps

as the sun sets, an opal, a tiger’s eye,

to the horizon, until he and the sun are one.

~ruth mowry~

For Joshua

The Albatross

Often, for pastime, mariners will ensnare

The albatross, that vast sea-bird who sweeps

On high companionable pinion where

Their vessel glides upon the bitter deeps.

Torn from his native space, this captive king

Flounders upon the deck in stricken pride,

And pitiably lets his great white wing

Drag like a heavy paddle at his side.

This rider of winds, how awkward he is, and weak!

How droll he seems, who lately was all grace!

A sailor pokes a pipestem into his beak;

Another, hobbling, mocks his trammeled pace.

The Poet is like this monarch of the clouds,

Familiar of storms, of stars, and of all high things;

Exiled on earth amidst its hooting crowds,

He cannot walk, borne down by his giant wings.

~Charles Baudelaire~

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