-living with winter and a newer water-

we went to the river. seductive

light is slate-stone blue-

grey,— like nickel, nearing 

planetary.

we're older, now,

you and I and all we knew.

the shape of March

was sharply drawn. the indelible

night swept across the sweltering Del Rio

and outside the awakening of the stars.

for Linda Bauer, Ann Arbor, in whose memory

this poem is written