Said The Waves read directly and with aging

said the tiger
said globe, the sequencing of phrases
said jug, jug, jug I sing like the nightingales,
            though not too well
said commerce,
            commerce reading Lucretius at lunch
said a circle cast on the waters,
            a farm life with mud and children
said Pacific islands (here)
said Percival
said the horse, to have a horse that makes the fall
            at India far—
said tyger, tyger leaping
said too, too quickly
said but we hasten
said toward
said the premonition, my fear of dying in moving water
said look up, whales may be breaching
said rumors and gossip
            (tales and flukes)
said ahoy! Percival dies!

said asymmetry, the clean fall
said a preference for mountains over the sea, like islands
said we love like a mountain
said at treeline,
            short of breath
said the shore break, glacial salt spray—The End,
            and aquatic, sun drenched, slanting
            Alps on Alps