Girl's Song

Meg Hutchinson

Night rides in on a calcium moon



We drive down to the water



To meet the green river's edge



Poetry, vanilla candles in the firefly dim



Sisters two on the cold sand



Where the tornado's swum before



Naked in our love, in our breath



Naked in the June air







Wade into the deep



Into the jade of sky



We sing the girl song



She and I and I and she







Saw I an old man young or a young man old?



Saw I an old man young or a young man old?







No matter No matter No Matter



Wash now, make your body sweet



Nurtured by the sailing moon



She shall love, my soul as though



Body were not all and all were not body



Ripples emerald from my child limbs



Shimmer whisper onto stone



I am but a small pebble in these water rings



Floating in, these cool fish pools of evening