Great sheets of rain shroud
the mountains and run to sea
life giving rain, fog, dew
sequoias, soil, sands sift
just enough
long tutored grace
wind stoked movement of tree limbs
a long shaking and waters go deep in the earth
springs, streams, rivers, snake
where long forgotten ancestors fished washed drank
we dammed piped and powered
a flow of words and concepts
congeries of frozen symbols
exhausted we sit at the well meaning.