Water Sculptor

Water Sculptor Life stretches into abundant sheaths swelling with water, Living breath of the selfless servant cascades through veins Drawn into waterways of stalks and roots Reaching – climbing – filling - shaping Boughs of mighty oaks and agile weeping willows Self-sculpture surging, fashioned into perfumed sinuous vines, Arching floral sunbows, Floods of bursting supple rose petal scented fountains - The graceful limber lilac in nodding plies - Filled to saturation and untouched By the withering hand of drought Strong stems of landscapes like waterfalls of vibrating weirs, As buttercups in spas of tumbling dewdrops, A living hush of gushing life infused – Flowing in the murmur of the silent unseen molding, Whispered into new wings soaring On ever rising veils for conduits of resurrection From inner arterial paths and aquatic branched channels Waterknife shaping in undertones of colorless hues The contoured face of field and forest - sky and mountain meadow. 6-20-21 Contest: The Shape of Water Sponsor: Craig Cornish