black-lick and quick
under the sallies,
the coldness off her
like the coldness off you –
your cheek and your clothes
and your moves – when you come in
from gardening.
She was in the swim
of herself, her gravel shallows
swarmed, pollen sowings
tarnished her pools.
~
And so what, did I hear
somebody cry? Let them
cry if it suits them,
but let it be for her,
her stones, her purls, her pebbles
slicked and blurred
with algae, as if her name
and addressing water
suffered muddying,
her clear vowels
a great vowel shift,
Moyola to Moyulla.
~
Milk-fevered river.
Froth at the mouth
of the discharge pipe,
gidsome flotsam …
Barefooted on the bank,
glad-eyed, ankle-grassed,
I saw it all
and loved it at the time –
blettings, beestings,
creamery spillage
on her cleanly, comely
sally trees and alders.
~
Step into her for me
some fresh-faced afternoon,
but not before
you step into thigh waders
to walk up to the bib
upstream, in the give and take
of her deepest, draggiest purchase,
countering, parting,
getting back at her, sourcing
her and your plashy self,
neither of you
ready to let up.
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