WATER-SPIRIT

Wimblington is where you fell out of the sky

not at first like a sweet shower on a changeable day.

I’m thinking of the way like a shining spear or javelin

a waterfall can spout quite clear of a cliff, her force

for a moment little less than gravity, before she arcs

above a valley, graceful and loosening, and drifts

to the supple floor, an umbrella golden, many-coloured.

Water-spirit, my own daughter, rising, riding,

I see you falling, falling and laughing. Elementary.