the soul

1. Concise & Incantatory I know a woman. Her soul is water. Her water is river. Her river is song. I know a woman. Her soul is wind. Her wind is breath. Her breath is dawn. 2. Expansive & Narrative I know a woman whose soul is a hidden spring, rising through stone to wash the earth. Her soul is water, and the water becomes a river, and the river becomes a song, teaching thirst how to listen. Her soul is also wind— unseen, unheld, yet it turns the leaves, it carries the fragrance of bread, it opens the lungs of the world. From her soul is born a dawn that does not tire of returning. I know a woman. Her soul is the silence where beginnings take root.