In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
something by a river
Alph the sacred flow
that Coleridge spoke
of through the ages wisely
And what will they write
about the great
Monongahela or Sacred
River Mississippi
that fed Indian traders abundantly
Or that sacred River
Gave next to the Grotto
in a Pyrannese town Lourdes
that cured the lame and leper
and washed away the stigmatisms
of distorted visions to bring
Peace and healing.
What poet will chime like the noon
bells at Epiphany to sing
of loves too deep to express humanly
for fear they are lost in translation?