Rae Spencer’s most recent poem to appear here was “Entropy” (January 2017)
Gravity
By Rae Spencer
Water doesn’t want
It only weighs
Neither will nor wisdom
Inform its seep
Downhill, settling
To shaded pools
So rivers cascade
Over each new precipice
And marshes ooze
To inlet and gulf
Where tides surge
With the arid moon
Sere face lowered
In serene reflection
Over oblivious blue
Depths that teem
With fin and polyp
Oysters seeded
In numb brine
That neither murmurs
Nor sighs through a shell
Held to the ear
Though we hear its heave
As eternal chorus
Singing sailors to sea
Dreamers to sleep
Daughters to voice
Their bare feet anchored
In restless waves
On starry, ancient shores
Fabulous!
humanity is like water, following the path of least resistance until someone dares take a stance – and forever diverts it from that path