Pond Song 3.67

At an elemental level, the powers of nature appear as aesthetic energies, often full of generative élan, erotically at play in the living milieu of air, earth, fire, water. G&B 181

overcast after rain__mudflats luminous

tarnished mirrors backlit__ten cormorants plus

a heron and an egret__at the edge of the shallows

gently streaming to sea__Xie’s pattern unfolding flows

this close and beyond__just where I join the road

ducks dabble and wash__and the water pours out