(Rio) Grand Mother Cloud

(Rio) Grand Mother Cloud
By Kyle Holub
Headwaters
September 21, 2018

You can surely see us
from high above these mountain peaks.
We watched you for some time.

I saw you building, summoning, grouping
Water into your body,

Watched you swell, your edges engulfing
and shrinking the spaces of blue.

How can you be so big and so weightless?

We watched you reach
higher, further, gathering, gripping, gaining
until you gave birth some miles away.

Gave birth to the networks of
living waterways in these mountains.

Thank you, Grand Mother Cloud
for giving us life
for giving us the Rio Grande
for forgiving us our ignorance
for forgiving us our arrogance.

The Rio Grande and all the somebodies
dependent on her for life
give thanks to you by being.
Thank you, Grand Mother Cloud!