River water deepens
Under heavy winter mists
Silver sheets of raindrops
Shroud empty swirling nests
Low or fully flowing
The river spends its breath
Deftly sorting gravels
Where sockeye salmon nest
River ever-flowing
Along its ancient course
Wearing through a landscape
That knows the river's source
River flowing endless
Can never lose its way
Its water streaming forward
Has forgotten where it played
