I was running up the riverbed dry
She was naked lying in her bed
Her stones had not bled, and she could not cry
Her dress of water was locked in store
And she was cold lying on the floor
I ran up the Biddle combe brook
And it gave to me a sideways look
Who are you to trample on my bones?
Can't you see I lie alone
I need no other to claim my throne
Or cast about my care-worn stones
I am nature the mother grown
But no other shall me own
And in ripples and in childish tides
Her water dress trickled down over her thighs
And filled the dry bed where once she was wed
With its web-locked fingers, and its fluidity spread
And curled in crispness of a fresh salad bed
And I leapt like a monkey out of her flow
Her water cress dress would have swallowed me whole
In her water-caress I was a fungi
And I could listen to her glamorous story
Glistening soft as a velvet Jew’s ear
Of how she joined the Gulf stream
To travel away for a year
But she returned in the rain clouds
Heavy and all out of sorts
He had left her near the Isle of Iona
For a Madagascan or Chilean sport
So she returned to her hilly spring
She dressed herself in black,
And she lay in ground waters low in the basin
Of the Mendip hill's cavernous crack
She stayed like a widow in mourning
She lay in a suicide pact
With the stalactites and stalagmites adorning
Her chamber of echoing fact
She called to her own deep reflection
And she spoke with the mirror of the cave
And it said you are the source on inspection
It is only from you we can make waves
So, go out into the world once again
When the cold air will not turn you to ice
And be like the river of Eden
That runs out through paradise
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