their memory blessed by enchanters and declaimers
who grew in those waters/who drank in the springs
whose mothers bore children from shallows to depths
who saw with the salamander and played with the fish
Zen stories for children and grandchildren watery and free
now fences,pricetags,rules and park police
Tales of freedom once bold and mythical
Now building on watershed and chopping of trees
Now silt and flood damage and cleaning and scrape
Now we must live with violation of feng shui
Assuaged by Tales Of Elders who Bless
All Who Have Passaged Through These Waters Of Spring
Now celebrate the lost green frogs of Barton
fish forgotten,crayfish gone,salamander threatened
Now in the hands of musicians and storytellers
who love what is lost in a poem and song
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