Miracle And Mystery (For Brian)

Sinking into the ooze that crept along the river bank (and trapped our feet and stole our footprints) I followed in your footsteps treading only where you tread safe in the shape your big foot made I place my little foot unafraid. “Shhhhhhhh! ” you stopped – with a sudden sucking sound that said: “See...! ” I looked and saw a flash of incredible blue that could only be the colour of a dream come alive in someone’s eyes. Kingfisher and prey disappearing into a tree made more green by what I’d seen. My footprints frozen in your footprint both of us lost iIn a dream of the bluest blue imaginable as the river flew by laughing to itself as if it had created it reflecting everything that had come to be.