Marie Bortolotto 2023

The First Words

 

The first words got polluted

Like river water in the morning

Flowing with the dirt

Of blurbs and the front pages.

My only drink is meaning from the deep brain,

What the birds and the grass and the stones drink.

Let everything flow

Up to the four elements,

Up to water and earth and fire and air.

Seamus Heaney, Poet