Water Has No Secrets NaPoWriMo #13

Water has no secrets.

Fish, stones, the wide winds –

it shares with them equally.


I have this feeling near water

like I can say anything

and it won’t judge.


As I touched ripples across water’s skin,

it tasted me and found me

still a little green

like a banana picked too early.


Water has a way of knowing too much.

Not only can it keep no secrets –


it told all mine to the fish and stones

and the licking winds


so now the creek, the river

and the entire Pacific Ocean

know how impossibly long and durably

I have loved you.


JPW , NaPoWriMo  4/13/2020

A Wet Unity NaPoWriMo #9

This everyday miracle

unites us all.  The river skips onward

but trades its wet song

with every cell in every life.

The whole sea is found

in a single drop:  Hydrogen, oxygen,

sodium chloride,

niched in every corner

we name “life.”  My tides,

your waves fall and rise

in this unity of forever

simmering here in the sea

of our blood.

J. Pratt-Walter  © 2020

flow

your smile is a living candle

and I the moth rejoicing


your heart

bears a trusting gravity

and I the apple unresisting

fall


your soul opens into

an intelligent sea and I am

the boat in thrall sailing to our days

as they must flow
on


J. Pratt-Walter, (c) 2019