Burr Elm Table

Sweeping to the surface
From galactic depths
Two hundred years boil, twist and spiral
Their currents splitting
On giant boulders
Surging, swelling
Flash flooding
Carving deep valleys
Which open onto plains
Smoothing into eddies
Backwaters, rivulets
As deep pools
Of timelessness
Becalm their flow
An instant,
Or lifetime?