
The sky is falling
  into itself, gently
  drop by drop
  it ripples through my
  sky-pond face
  
  as perfect circles expand
    rolling into me
    i sway and dance
    my weedy hair swirling
    with trailing mud-clouds
though still upon
    the bank i sit
  i am lifted up
  on cattail-bird wings
  into the grey-green mist
  
  breeze-eddies whisper
  through my tree-head
    tickling mossy thoughts
    i laugh, bubbles rising
    from my belly-fish
dragonfly-eyes cry
  tadpole-tears
  that wriggle down, down
  to the bottom of this
  magic mirror-pool
  
    deep into my heart-rock
    where i am but
    an image merging
    where, though still i sit
  the sky is falling
©1994 Liesl Lee