Don't do it, the guidebook says
if you're lost. Then it goes on
to talk about something else,
taking the easiest way out,
which is of course what water does
as a matter of course always
taking whatever turn
the earth has told it to
while and since it was born,
including flowing over
the edge of a waterfall
or simply disappearing
underground for a long dark time
before it appears
as a spring so far away
from where you thought you were
and where you think you are
it may never occur
to you to imagine where
that could be as you go downhill.
- David Wagoner www.1814mag.com
