Water Song

Photograph by Reka Jellema. Copyright May 2015.

Water Song

breathe green
step from your skin
climb in her paintings
the slick trunk
you shimmy down
until your feet
touch drip
drip rain swollen swamp
follow the water-
color
wetlands
sleep on
lily pads
rest
waiting for
a dragonfly
to land
this damp afternoon
rinses your skin
with a patina
of green
mosquitoes hatch
en masse

A girl on a raft
lifts a glass
sliced lemons
surface
canoes paddle
past
lily pads
the suck
of oar
throaty
frog habitat
waterside cabins
where the children
separate yolk
from flesh
Beagles lick
a stack of paper plates
across the lawn

Jerusalem
we hear
in the word
a water song

By Reka Jellema
Copyright
May 17, 2015