BESIDE A LAKE IN IRELAND

All around, waves are rippling on the mountains:
the long-lost whitecaps of a tsunami from below
that dug the lake I’m staring into
with the fingers now tangled
in growing green things,
spreading along the earth.
Somewhere, a lamb is crying,  
aware the waves are ever breaking,
and stones fall into mirror-water. 

 

By Heidi Turner