Baikal speaks

Day one

21/03

     

     1

Calling across the ages of eternity

I sign my name

With a song

On the cover page

Of Baikal

     2

Clapping my hands

I snap time in two

Syncopating time and space

Writing lines

Of intent

     3

Across the waters of Baikal

A world awaits

Not yet born

Not yet ready

To assume place

    4

Did I tell you

How Baikal holds

The memories of

The human race

Did I tell you

     5

The morning breaks

Cold and clear

No morning ever spoke

My name

As you do

     6

Baikal shrugs as hail

Spickles its surface

When will you remember

Me

When will you

   

     7

Rising with the moon

I lay my hand upon

The night

And draw the empty

Star light

     8

If Baikal won’t say

How the world

Goes around

If Baikal won’t say

Baikal’s mood

     9

Dropping bombs of rain

Dropping bombs I rain

The waters of the world

Back into submission

Guilelessly

     10

Standing astride Baikal

The sky in my hair

The Earth in my bowels

Reaching along her shoreline

Tenderly

     11

Drumming my fingers

On the edge of eternity

Reaching into the depths

Of Blue

I hear you back

     12

Fizzing waters slide across

The wake

As glide and slop

The suck and skim

Of tuneful slake