Canoe
drifting downriver in a canoe
Immobile trees moving backward
flowing waters fixed blue
dry oar in the hand
of a still sitting statue
rocks ahead look rough
only one way through
the river is quickening now
the boat is being dragooned
into breaking itself on the rocks
and ending the journey to soon
one crucial piece of advice
in life also, this is true
if you wish to make it through the rocks
sitting still won’t help you
you have to be paddling foreword
in order to steer the canoe