Waves of Experience and Our Miracles of Wishes

Rivers
I salute them
have different ways of entering the ocean
just as people with a long past often
      invisible or somewhat
forgotten have a different way of entering the
      ocean of so called
death; Conrad and Melville and St. John Perse
      as mariners go very
far; who has returned to give a map of that ?
      not even Dante;
my notion is that we don't need one; there's
      a time and place
for no maps and metaphors, no metaphysics or
      meowing; egotism
and higher mathematics can only take us so far;
      the Atlantic Ocean,
the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the other
      ones with their straits and
dolphins and whales and millions of schools of fish
      provide cousins and
      Celebrations Enough.