by Rohan Buettel

I am subsumed in a state of flow,

submerged in a fast river sluice,

waters course in laminar planes

caressing trunk and limbs.

Mind on the peripheral,

carried downstream by torrents,

through cascades riven by rocks.

Unseen obstacles beneath the surface

create standing waves as eddies surge.

The detritus of broken branches,

logs and fallen trees are carried within

the turbid flux. They accompany me

as the waters swirl and swell,

breaking the banks, depositing

fertile silt on the flood plains.

Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, Australia. His haiku appear in Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in various journals, including Rattle, The Goodlife Review, Meanjin, Meniscus and Quadrant.