The Directions

The river is on the left

moving toward the infinite

heartbeat of ocean,

on the left where the willow road bends.

It too will continue on as something

there, where the mountain rises alone

with all its life

just as unfinished

joining the morning wind on its flyway,

the inway of wind

blowing the ever-growing grasses

to their knees,

and the shadow of birds

cross on their way

to becoming

something else,

another country

with the wind.