MISSISSIPPI WAY is my projection about what it will feel like to go down the Mississippi next Summer through late Fall with Den McCue...it's al in planning and saving and wondering and dreaming so far...but it will be Our Song, anon!....l

MISSISSIPPI WAY

I am on the
water course way

laying still like
ms Ophelia
on her lily pads
only not dead

letting the river
carry her down
where the water
never crosses twice

not resisting
not helping neither
not going anywhere
twice just like
river courses

I am going
down river with
a water man
who cries more
than any other
man I've ever
been with

we are paddling
and being tired and
hot and even tempered
summer day river
bends and bends

I've learned to bend
like any river way
around life and love
around every snag

an expert fish
eyes wide open
to the truth
under the current

in the shade and deep
waiting for the dry fly
that I will snap
that will take me home

there are brilliant
water course ways
lives like symphonies
of rivers crashing
into willing and
wild seas

I am only one
little river going
down and down
I will meet another
we will go into the
big muddy into
the swollen delta
into the dark gulf
into the sea

I turn and sigh
and kiss the river
the river man
and the paddle
the canoe the
banjo the guitar
the songs we sing

on this river
this water course way
this river

this river