With smiles on their faces
they demand, "Tell us how you are different!"


A clod of earth on a cliff was eager too.
It too demanded to know,
"What is water?" -
"Why does water dance with wind in waves?" -
"Why is water everywhere at once?" -
"Why is water lapidary to stone?" -
before it lost its hold to rain,
fell into the sea,
and dissolved.


		Brandywine
		9/3/98