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tenntea in Poetry & Free Verse

the river

I close my eyes and follow the scent

down memory’s trail

time slows and the air thickens

It’s a weighty cool—

the kind that drinks in navy on a moonlit sky

Suddenly,

I’m standing on a shore called new beginnings

I peer silently at a curious display of joy and wonder—the garments of the river

stitched together in a symphony of movement,

one rises as the other crashes

like waves on a fabric sea

the water is alive with breath

and suddenly I’m aware—

there are others here

we’re gathering at the banks of knowing, now

chests rise and and fall

In a synchronous transaction

we inhale as the water exhales

with a crash and a spray of healing mist

our eyes are as the sky-scene reflected on the surface of the waters deep—

starry and littered with light

We all know we’re here for the same thing

I remove all I came with

and step over the edge

to be fully clothed by the water

instantly I wake and my eyes are open with the fullness of knowing