Stone's Ode - Mount Eerie

When I see rivers tearing hills

Finished with mountains with the hill at my back

I watch silt sink

The river shown by walking downhill

Breath becoming clouds, becoming rain

Uprooting hillsides, dissolving bones

The stone groans an ode

To wind and dust clouding

In air, the song revealing

The standing wave in the stream

Bodies assembled of dust

Brought temporarily

In the river, the rocks groan

Oh, water pouring through me, pouring my mouth

Trees bend in my sighing and lie down

The river shown groans an ode

To form and assembly

Alive, the song revealing

At the end of the day

Cold light comes from the side

I stop what I’m doing

And a river of cold wind brings night

Night falls, cloaks the world

Impenetrable darkness

A chill rises from the soil

Erodes the world of dreams

In ashes and fog

Suddenly life has new meaning

Alive, propped on bones

Overwhelming feeling

Confused, watching dust dancing

In the blow the stones erode

The river revealing

Awake, revealed and fleeting