The mist The falls The split
Every body giddy for it Every body
Transfixed Joyous noise The weir-dam sheer
Power of it Volume
Churned up Every body electrified Every body
Eclipsed The spray haloing every head Rainbows
Multiplying like the fishes Water
Fired up Every one speaking in tongues Every one
Bewitched Paradox Of biblical proportion Where
Thunder Beings once existed Ecstasy
In every femtosecond In every drop:
Resurrection Fishes falling through the falls cushioned
By froth Soft immaculate breast of the goddess Plunging
The escarpment Sacred once Once sublime Siphoned to spectacle
Source: The Author, April 2025
Bio:
Joanne De Simone Reynolds was poetry judge for Art on the Trails in Southborough, Massachusetts in 2023 after placing first for poetry in 2022. Her collection of sixteen ekphrastic poems for 2020 Art Ramble in Concord, Massachusetts can be viewed alongside images of the sculptures at The Umbrella arts center.
Joanne De Simone Reynolds visited Niagara Falls in August of 2019.