River Mirror Time

River Mirror Time

Winter river,
Light, reflects off
Almost-frozen water,
Blue grey, sluggish channel
Framed by snow.
The mirror clouded,
The future uncertain.

Along the bank,
Red brier tangles
Above snow,
Above water.
Golden grasses,
Dried, to light lifelessness,
Blow in the wind
That knifes down valley.

Spring river
Shallow margins reflect
The spectrum
Of new green
Tight, rusty green buds not yet uncurled. 
Briers sprouting gold/green leaves
Blue green grasses,
Bent with spring rain and new life,
And only the barest ripples
Of wind on water
Separate river blue
From blue sky.

Time passes along
The river, in motion
Changing
From dormant ice
To living green
And back to ice

Standing on the bank,
I watch the river. 
I too am in motion,
Changing,
With the passage of seasons
I too am reflected
In the
River,
Mirror,
Time