It has a hole in it. Not only where I
concentrate.
The river still ribboning, twisting up,
into its re-
arrangements, chill enlightenments, tight-knotted
quickenings
and loosenings–whispered messages dissolving
the messengers–
the river still glinting-up into its handfuls, heapings.
glassy
forgettings under the river of
my attention–
and the river of my attention laying itself down–
bending,
reassembling–over the quick leaving-offs and windy
obstacles–
and the surface rippling under the wind’s attention–
rippling over the accumulations, the slowed-down drifting
permanences
of the cold
bed.
I say iridescent and I look down.
The leaves very still as they are carried.