Sumida is where the river burns
with heart-fire; alive with Kami
that by-pass the reasoning mind
for direct access to heart strings;
to the illogic that illuminates
and nurtures lost humanity,
lurking in defiance, lurking
in the dinosaur brain still hiding
it’s treasure from homo techiens;
surviving in the river, the forest,
the breath of deer at dawn; surviving
the illearth destruction
and the holocaust of greed.