River - Forrest Gander

River

     from Eiko & Koma

Taut current, throughstricken
with night, starlit,

and both of them
facing off. En-
igma tipped to
distortion— *

She floats on swirled
obsidian current. Their
sightlines swim across
each other. Stars
don't look away
from the unfolding,

the going alluvial,
she against his
tenderness.
 
*cutaway:
          to the blanks in her face-slots

FORREST GANDER