ardeur

This,
is the moment for the waterfall

these,
were our memories, or to be
not to be a ripple of excitement,
but to stay.

while the Inuit were the only people
the cold was not as heartless
doubtless as boldness holds
down-to-earth, far too simple.

Breaking the ice, how shallow
moving the numb, as fallows
when the glow flows between atoms
water falls

a retiring god says
à dieu
never leaving hereafter
ever living, never after
ever yours.