The spring eroded a handspan gap under two birches low on the shaded hillside. Bubbling up through soggy duff, rivulets spread among the osmundo and skunk cabbage, down to the step-across brook.
This morning I gathered flat rock, then scooped the basin down to gravel, All afternoon I set the stone, snug as scales, walling the knee-high brook.
Water runs clear and cold in the sweet pool. Soon moss will clothe the stone.
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Stoning the Spring
The spring eroded a handspan gap
under two birches low on the shaded
hillside. Bubbling up through soggy
duff, rivulets spread among the
osmundo and skunk cabbage, down
to the step-across brook.
This morning I gathered flat rock,
then scooped the basin down to gravel,
All afternoon I set the stone, snug
as scales, walling the knee-high brook.
Water runs clear and cold in the sweet
pool. Soon moss will clothe the stone.
-- Jown Haag, "Stones Don't Float"
John Haag,
"Stones Don't Float"
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