Aqua Pura Power

Scoured since its primeval
eruption from the cooling
Earth's crust, the smooth granite
slope of the mountain is home
to a constant stream whose
gushing crystalline force roars
in a frenzy of power and
presence that even granite
is not impervious to. Beside
the gushing stream are banks
of ancient tumbled gneiss
and granite erratics, the gneiss
layered, gnarly with stubborn
vegetation harbouring the
ambition to become trees.
Ancient hemlock, oak and 
yellow birch populate the
mountain slope beneath the
alpine but it is the mountain
stream oblivious to interruption
that speaks on the mountain
as it relentlessly, timelessly
scours the slope into a serried
succession of runnels, pools
and basins that speak of nature's
knowing blueprint in ordering
the echelons of executive power.