I’ve seen the other side.
There is no traction there.
There is only the emergence of Emily
sliding to threaten
the riverbed into a waterfall
& when we aged
to never, ever be motionless in water,
I thought this sort of thing
was what we were discussing.
I was wrong. We were talking
about a constant energy
& Emily is going to hold me to that,
even if I can no longer hear
where the water was entirely quiet
& I know that what can hold us
where the water disappears
has no color to it, only gravity.
