A long river running
Love is
fish eyes with tears
earth shakes just enough to remind us
sound of water the frog the pool
the present tense a lost syllable
if the eye is the haiku of the sun does God
wish for the moon
what has not been
seen
what is not
seen
eyes harvest regret
God a word a tremor
waiting for an idea
a light an edge
lonely echo a light
a beginning wave
in the vibration
Eden was already Eden
when the gardener arrived
Who then did God speak
to before Adam–
Sarah Jefferis, www.sarahjefferis.com, @IG dr.jefferis.write.now, is a poet, editor, TEDX Speaker and Yoga teacher. Her second book, What Enters the Mouth was published in 2017 by Standing Stone Books. She holds an MFA from Cornell and a PhD in Lit from Binghamton University.