River Son
Jason Atkins-Lawson

You
who is made of love
countless birds
Did you forget the path just off the road?
dozens of trees
the secret handshake of two people
continues to make

the current doesn’t need
to slow
just older than a moment ago.

There’s a bungee
an answer
to the question of gravity

we peer
into the river—beside the trees,
the current
our secret handshake

And we plunge.