Archibald MacLeish: “Water is heavy silver over stone…”

 

Water-heavy-silver-stone

Artist:  Anne Diggory —  Descents

 

Water is heavy silver over stone.
Water is heavy silver over stone’s
Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows
Every crevice, every fault of the stone,
Every hollow. River does not run.
River presses its heavy silver self
Down into stone and stone refuses.

What runs,
Swirling and leaping into sun, is stone’s
Refusal of the river, not the river.

— Archibald MacLeish

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