aquifer

for the time,
all things might wait,

for we gather, in the lip
of fallen mountain, a

valley, broken by dirt--

wait, gathered
below,

(love--that last,
that least--)

absorb, unwilling, what
lies beneath us,

let someone's folly,
raise us,

free

of any legacy, forget
below--forget

to carry--

the cost of chance, the
cost of rest, of peace,

if we rise.