Exigency of water

Take the withered  mountain and try to find its lake whose atoms 
are forever running late    they cannot choose between the exigency 
of water and the posterity of stone    reach of loss equals the reach 
of small equals the hundred wishes that stand with petals & fronds
I catch the passage of these petals & fronds as if it was my name 
carved out in song    as if the algebra of difficulty is measure of frailty
if only finality confirmed origin    would that the child chide sky -

the unbearable succinctity of the Way

truth being part of the overall
whatever, we are beheft somewhat
to mark our calendars & heed our
maps      what was best left untrod
is furious at being charted out so -