Boiling River

Boiling River, south of Gardiner, MT 28 August 2011

for Cindy Gipple

I crawled upstream

on all fours thinking

I can't bogart lower pot

in the Boiling River

I palmed a flat rock

in middle pot while

I crouched against

the current, and thought

Thought of the people

who kyped keepsakes

below Obsidian Cliff

necessitating a sign

But I slipped the rock

into my swim trunks warm

against my thigh and

carried it home to you