The gift of water
A film review
plip
plip
slow-dripping,
rippling, dimpling
with pond skimmers,
diving, sliding, brimming,
lapping, lulling, pooling,
cooling, playing under leaves,
smoothing her pebbles
fresh river water
translucent as truth
next: a chilling scene:
barebrown
sludge
trenched churned
rigid-ridged
not a single
grassblade whispers
under
earsplitting grind
of a Caterpillar
it looks like Gaza
it's not Gaza
not open-cast
not Amazon logging
not fracking
turns out this is how
the rain can return:
slows, swells, swales,
sinks to aquifers,
softens the ground,
remaking life
possible
in its immeasurable
multiplicity
very soon
that same desert
is green: a grove,
a lake,
a garden
of earthly delight - look
at old Rajendra!
he can't hold in his joy
it overflows and spills like
the gift of water
flowing from life to life
village to village
heart to heart
Stevie Krayer