To Love Diana

To Love Diana

felt like plunging beneath the waves of time and space,
diving again and again
like those nesting ospreys in the midst of salt-water creeks,
fierce and insistent as parents,
ossifragus – bone-breakers,
flying out to hunt for fish,
now arriving at the nest with outstretched wings,
coming into the wind,
shrieking their urgency to feed their nestlings,
programmed to love and work together,
whirling and diving into the salt water over and again
to feed their fledglings in the nest.