ENOUGH FOR NOW
A brook winds its path
through my garden
From whence it comes
I do not know
Its origin must be in the hills
far above.
My friend and I
one forenoon in March
started our ascent
along the upward path
Is it not true that brooks have origins--
Else where do the stock anew
their baptismal fluid?
Up the hills we climb
seeking help from hill people
in our upward search
In the afternoon
with the brook oozing from the ground below
only a few feet from us
The watershed is here
exclaimed a woman!
We continued our upward climb
finding again my brook
permeating the ground above.
Evening came
Knowing all things have origins
We searched no further
having searched enough for now
But the morrow is another day.