Unpossessed
The river is exact. Like energy,
expended only in pursuit
it cannot be contained.
It has no symptoms.
Witness the futility with which
we comb its elements, how we labour
to recuperate its origins. The river
yearns as we yearn, it learns as we
do not. The river changes that by
which it is changed, ceaselessly
testing the limits of its disclosure,
refining its powers of revulsion.
Its music, rustling like static
instead rehearses its own erasure,
carefully redefining what it is not.
The river is unpossessed. Observe
the jealousy with which it screens its
instincts, indifferent to our secrets.
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