Rock, Paper, Scissors

Wind & water swirl their dance

Of who leads and who follows

With mountains abundance

making weather, churning hallow

Life making life for eternity

Changing wind, rain, snow, ice

Glacier melt cutting rock, tree

making rivers, in turns of slice

What floats here now once lived

up on high, in mountain stories

What wraps through here now

Has lived before

What slices through rock & tree

Will live beyond

What presses through you and me

Lives in roots, river, mountain

infinitely

As wind, rain, melted snow & ice

rock!paper!scissors! landscape

Not a game chance,

but of belonging to life’s dance

Nothing is lost, nothing is gained

All shape-shifts of life force energy

** inspired by a mother-son rafting trip down the white salmon glacier melt river from Mt Adams, in Wa state