Rivers Poem by Lee B. Mack

I would never forget holy places
Anniversary catered acts to Meroe
Rivers between us know
Waters whence edges north
And beaches south come and go
The barium green of newly wed
To the Griot senior moment of lay
But for - not the forgotten bed
Magnesium in starlit rainbow bent
To turn the shadow and glitter
Yellow between the membrane
Stain of a spectrum of banana bend
To the floor at the ocean trench rest
The sodium crystallized to redden
Into the ore of sweat to colored soul
The holy home where all our people
Come from and all the children go.