HYACINTH   FLOAT

Meet  you  almost  every day
here , on  river  Gongaa
gliding  up-tide  or  down  -and
floating  day  and  night .

don't know  how  to  admire  you  more
so much  deep  green  and  vital  soft
like  'aborigine -girl , --wild  and  healthy
sliding  up and  down ;  ever  green ,  ever  mobile  !
on  the  liquid  bed  -spread   in  front  of  my  flat !

With root  and  thousands  of  root-let - strings
like  puffy  spread-hair  of  a  country  girl
hidden  and  ever  bathing   under - water
with  your roots ;  yet   with   that  'root-less'  life.

Even  so  detached   from  the  eager  Earth
and  swim  with  tide ;  float  and  flow
Wish  !  -- I  could  be  too ,  like  you
 ever - green  and   with your  vital  flow  !