For Grace

Singing Kyrie Eleison
  Christe Eleison,
  tuned to the roar of the Tule River,
I see a grey Water Ouzel
   bobbing and wading
  into the rushing stream.

Little torrents of water
  billow over him
  as he ducks his head to feed.

Kyrie!
  Christe!

A blue dragon fly
  glides low
   over the dancing river.

Eleison!

1986