River Rocks yellow You put on your swimsuit

You put on your swimsuit cover and hat

The stones catch the light and sparkle

they might think you were only part of the sky

Peacock pearls on lever backs ear wires

The shallow pools hold secrets

River Rocks yellow You put on your swimsuitSmoothed by water, sand, and time, they cover the riverbed like a rainbow of pearls. Looking out onto the river, the bright sun shines down and turns waves into glitter along the far shore. Sand, grass, and silt mix with cool water in eddies and bends. Reds, pinks, blues, purples, greens, greys, and white, banded and solid, made from layers of earth built up and pressed over time until they turned to shale and sandstone. Broken by tectonic plates,