In Remembrance of Alice Heidelberg, James Martin Heidelberg, Sr. and Jeanette Heidelberg, December, 2009

Of Time and the Rivers Vltava and Salzach


Long after
we are all gone,
the rivers flow --
music from snows melting,
fairy lands
as when we
were all children --
brown, not green,
with the force
of nature.


Heidelberg, Salzburg, 1999

(Note: Photograph Copyright (c) Paul Heidelberg: taken from the spot at the Mozartsteg bridge over the Salzach River where the poem was written; the photograph was taken during a visit to the city of Mozart's birth in 2000 by Jeanette Heidelberg and Paul Heidelberg.)