Remember her living when
she rediscovered the joy of
being sprayed and splashed
by the deep-down-plunging waterfall.

She was eighty, suddenly,
the river-girl in her old body
woke from a long sleep
to play like salmon in the water,

it was marvelous to observe
the pleasure of that girl again
who had disturbed the reflected
moon playing in a river long ago

carefree with girl friends,  not yet
anxious wives and loving mothers.