has anybody ever told you that your eyes look like ocean at sundown deep dark unavoidable immense clear mirror of overarching heavens and all that swirls beneath flux with ripples and undulations responsive to every disturbance reflecting scattering creating light of the passing stars has anybody ever told you that your hair resembles a river smooth and gentle gleaming in borrowed sunlight parting suddenly and unexpectedly into soft twin streams of calm concealing eternal turbulence framing miraculous islet of diamond and ruby, of rhinestone and tulip of lavender and forget- -me-nots rich meadows hiding from the rainbow chosen treasures of earth and of heaven of nature and of human art symphonies as fervent as sunlight within momentous in scope limitless in intensity until it vanishes in separate gorgeous currents over your white sand shoulders ................................................................. HAS ANYBODY EVER TOLD YOU that you are water personified the basis of all life on earth substance and sustenance of existence defining and guiding the future of earth and humanity - - - ubiquitous and enigmatic radiant and multifaceted transparent and thoroughly indispensable ************* * blissful * * vibrant * * fickle * * clear * ****************** M I R A G E to a dessicated traveler plodding aimlessly across this boundless desert ................................................................................