Teardrops on the Weser
(excerpts from new manuscript)
a
zimmer dreihundertundfünfzig
from what scattered river basin
does the weser drink
what gravity
at the pumps
with tap root
in hannoversch münden
reigned in
these galloping waters
gathered them up
leveled the sky-high fountain
and
roiled the frothing mass
into glass-smooth
singing bubbles
funneling them
forwards towards
bremen and
the north
as one spliced big-bodied water
coiled like rope
coursing thickly
a solid brown vein
snaking
through lower saxony
only to burst apart into
twain tributaries
two grave flows
the undernourished little weser
and her fatter conjoined twin
finally separated deep down
in downtown bremen
both parallel waterways
mirror their parent streams
the fulda and the werra