Ever Where

[busker]

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. …. These couple of lines work very well 

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. ,… I like the consistency of ending each strophe with a tangible image

One stream feeds another
until the river goes south into wilderness,
freed from the anthropoid 
into its divine plan of rock and tree 
past the plains of fire
into the Gulf of pure existence. ….. explaining that the gulf is one of existence is unnecessary. I think the passage is rich enough to allow for some ambiguity

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

One of the best I’ve read in a while