By Robert René Galván

As the mind extends

its tributaries,

so does the body

erode into silt,

Or to an empty canyon

where strata record

histories delicate

as the veins of a leaf,

or a tree’s rings,

Doomed to return

as rain, again

and again,

to the spring

with an absence

of memory.

Robert René Galván, born in San Antonio, resides in New York City where he works as a professional musician and poet. His last collections of poems are entitled, "Meteors," Undesirable: Race and Remembrance, Somos en Escrito Foundation Press, Standing Stones, Finishing Line Press, and The Shadow of Time, Adelaide Books.