Naples Fountain
Fascination has such
willing participants.
Gale reminds me that once
I sat and stared like this at her.
It is a series of basins
mounted atop one another,
smallest at the top,
largest at the bottom.
Water begins its journey
in high white marble,
fills the first so easily,
overflows into the next,
and then the next
and so on.
The bigger the vessel of course,
the longer it takes to fill,
to fulfill its promise
to the one below.
But eventually,
all water is flowing equally,
a symmetry is reached
that summons every bowl
to its perfection.
Gale grips my arm
like touch is just one more transition
this love makes.
She cascades into me
and all is accommodated.
I don't wonder
where the water in the
bottom bowl goes.
It fills and fills
but doesn't spill a drop.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and Tenth Muse. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires and Covert are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, White Wall Review and Cantos.
Fascination has such
willing participants.
Gale reminds me that once
I sat and stared like this at her.
It is a series of basins
mounted atop one another,
smallest at the top,
largest at the bottom.
Water begins its journey
in high white marble,
fills the first so easily,
overflows into the next,
and then the next
and so on.
The bigger the vessel of course,
the longer it takes to fill,
to fulfill its promise
to the one below.
But eventually,
all water is flowing equally,
a symmetry is reached
that summons every bowl
to its perfection.
Gale grips my arm
like touch is just one more transition
this love makes.
She cascades into me
and all is accommodated.
I don't wonder
where the water in the
bottom bowl goes.
It fills and fills
but doesn't spill a drop.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and Tenth Muse. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires and Covert are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, White Wall Review and Cantos.
