Ever Where

[rowens]

Everything leads to 
something else
here in Nowheresville
except the river
that steals through it
sleek as a secret reptile
that finds itself in a temporary cage.

Elsewhere brings us
a step closer to the invisible,
the steep bank 
where grasses console the mud,
an abandoned bicycle
resting in the roots of a cypress.

What occurs to me is putting the last two lines at the beginning of this stanza and making a silent simile:

An abandoned bicycle
resting in the roots of a cypress,
Elsewhere brings us
a step closer to the invisible,
the steep bank 
where grasses console the mud.




One stream feeds another
until the river goes south into wilderness,


You could flirt with saying to or on instead of into. Into may be correct, but to or on gives it a unique buzz.



freed from the anthropoid 
into its divine plan of rock and tree 
past the plains of fire
into the Gulf of pure existence.


Maybe the into here is not necessary. Though maybe you are using the word into as a joint that the segments of the poem are turning on.

Otherwise, simply:

past the plains of fire,
the Gulf of pure existence.

Hell, even:

Past plains of pure fire
into the Gulf of existence.

And it already works as you have it. And what you have sounds best.

We feed ourselves
on its disappearance
praying to the breeze across our faces.