River

Keep your lakes and ponds. Keep your seas.

I will live riverside.

Unpredictable rivers rush to unseen destinations

and all I will know of my river is its inexorable push

to pass me, to go on.

My part is to see it move beyond,

here clear,

there silted to darkness.

Its power forms the very channel

that contains it

and is susceptible to wild excitement,

excavating new beds, oxbows, backwaters.

Floods abate and the river rolls on

made different yet the same.

A cabin by the river is my heart's desire.

 

 

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