..Rack to clouds, body gleaming he
leaps like water across the red-dirt

..road, and freezes, heraldic, a
tableau in porphyry for a fountain

..or a spring like the one at Nauplia
that restored youth and virginity, or

..at Epidaurus where you drank, dreamed
and were cured, or the Cyanean spring

..where you read your answer in a mirror
let down to almost touch the water, or

..here where you can almost touch before
he flows like a dream into dark rainy woods.

--Brian Swann