Raising H2O

In a clear container, constrained, curling
the liquid leaps,
watery whorls wielding,
rising up fingering, flowing
springing serpentine,
air borne above rim,
liquid fingers, reaching,
frozen high before descent,
a voluntary raising, child of momentum, cresting
before returning, retreat, re-curdling.
release.

Circular convolution, cradling
slow surcease, stilling
motion.

milling moment
stilling,

mute.