“making night into day…”…“riverine,” my poem

“making night into day…”…“riverine,” my poem

Whence the wisps…

 

 

riverine

 

Whither the barren shapes

   that rise from the horizon,

and lose their form

   as they climb the sky?

 

Whence the wisps that fill small voids,

the remnants of those banks,

the shapeless swirls

   of pink and white and grey?

 

They don’t stay, defying names,

always shifting to new frames,

making night into day,

drifting as they will,

the vault is a vast current,

the waifs of one-time clouds

   fill and roil the channel,

without sound,

such patient change,

a nameless river over all…

 

November 26, 2025

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