Within the river
 
I hear another river
 
and then another.

 
 
 

What can you tell me,
 
river that flows to the sea,
 
of my journey’s end?

 
 
 

The river whose name
 
will not flow forth from my tongue
 
still flows to the sea.

 
 
 

Questions at daybreak:
 
Mountain, who is your master?
 
River, your mistress?

 
 
 

Far from the forest,
 
far from the restless river
 
a hummingbird falls.

 
 
 

an empty river
 
but for traces of birdsong
 
left among the stones

River

 
 
 

New year, day sixteen—
 
I try to read the river,
 
but it won’t keep still.