moving through the water
emotions gather in swirling fragments
ground from daily pressures
sliding along
the floor of my heart
curling at its banks
slowly building up, closing off,
narrowing the river’s path, damning my mouth,
half settling, uneasily, waiting....
then, large waves from a surface storm
with undulating currents reach below
sweeping deep down
shifting and removing
months, even years
of restricting debris
from the corners of my heart
a cough, a half choke
I open my mouth
April 3, 2005
