resumption

What's this
fooled
again?

there was such
clarity
on the mountain top
but then I
kept wandering in your
forest

as if dark damp shadows
were to be preferred
to sunbeams

I've been a cave dweller
in the forest
surrounded by
monkeys

I knew enough:
these waters were
poisoned
by decades of extraction
legitimacy's inconsequential

why didn't
I keep traveling
to the spring's source?
because the road was
steep

now looking at your
reflection in the
darkness of the
waters:

you never mentioned
her.
(bless her)

I guess I'll
go back to
climbing.