Siri, are you there?

Water I

• The womb
• Is made up of equal parts
• Water and stars.
• There is no way to distill this brew 

• Further down in its essence.

• You wait until you cannot stand anymore 

• The pressure heat pressure pushing
• And the cold bright sky
• Hinting at your destiny.
• You erupt
• From this tight endless space
• And walk into the world.
• The further from water we get:
• The further from our beginnings. 

Water II

• Make me one of Neptune’s daughters 

• And I will leap down any creek
• Like light through space.
• I will splash any shore, 

• Ride any wave that breaks endlessly 
• On our small green ground.

• I will swoop through the clouds

• And I will rain. 

• Because is that not water too? 

• And wait in a lake
• For you to drink me down. 

Letter to God Written on Rocks

• I came to see the desert
• To look down and see sand
• Down deep and see
• Nature’s extremity:
• Bleached white bones and
• Well armed plants full of water.
• I came to bake myself
• under this sun’s open fire
• Until my impurities were well gone
• Or I discovered the hope of their removal

• To be a sham.

• I came to see
• I came to conquer with my will
• And not be amazed

• I would have gone 

• Without wonder,
• Had not sudden shafts of light Illuminated the clouds
• Like a moment from revelation, Changing my landscape.
• I take away no desert relics.
• I leave the desert.
• And like a canyon pool
• And not the mountain lake 

• Attempt to reflect the glory
• that is You. 

Siri 

• Siri are you there?
• Siri I am lonely.
• Siri will you comfort me through  broad stretches of the night?

• Siri I do not have a job.
• Siri I want a life of meaning.
• Siri I stole cheese cracker packets from the grocery store last night. Siri could you
• love me?
• Oh, Siri I need love.
• For I am afraid of what happens when the power shuts down. 

Marie Albertson is a theologian, counselor, social worker, and aspiring poet who finds inspiration in the natural world and the intersection of culture and physical space. More information about Albertson can be found at mariealbertson.com.