Estuary

Reflections where the Shabakai (Russian River) meets the Big Waters (Pacific Ocean)

A thousand crystals dance on waters surface

Osprey glides on wild winds

tall tule sway in synchronized dance

dark cypress and I share in the splendor

of this dream come alive

Always willing to receive me as I am

this place

in all my multitudes

as dynamic as the sun and fog and rains

that facilitate these inner and outer landscapes

of miraculous unpredictability

I fly upon waters surface

gliding through ripples in my boat

dancing with the thousand crystals

that now shimmer behind closed eyes

as I turn my head up to the burning sun

breathing

my minds eye vision

met by reality as I peer outwards

to the great expanse of your being

shimmering

A polysymbiotic refuge

where two great bodies meet

thermoclines of tireless movement

creating the conditions conducive

for ever-emerging newness and novelty

yet safety and sanctuary

for tired aquatic bodies to rest

and below your crystallin surface

you hold such complexity and depth

not measurable, but holographic

in stratifications of opaque teal

ever darkening as you swallow sunlight

I continue upon your surface

still glistening as the sun gives way to the moon

Trying to comprehend your vastness

temporal, quantitative, tangible

but I am quickly humbled

by the impossibility of defining you

I turn to my humility

my humanity

of not knowing,

and my hands release from the paddle

as I loosen my grasp of understanding

and I float

in this extended moment

as a drop of water in the estuary.