River

Your speckled bed -
a thrush’s breast

your warbling rivulets -
descanting shallows

your flow's prismatic splatter -
a baptism of light

your burble under alders-
a garbled lullaby

confabulate your song -
I'll ford its melody

a thrum of summer stars
glide through rills

visionary water
prophesy the parting seas

my swallow-thoughts
return to you

in Summer's dappled dance
and Autumn's yellow drift.