(c) 2005
A river is any fresh water stream
whose path was not drawn on a blueprint—
not in the shops of carpenters
or leatherworkers.
Developers would pull the river taut.
A river empties into another—
into lake or ocean.
It shapes cliffs, beaches, villages.
A river is never river alone.
Trout breaking surface
suggest hymns.
The acoustics of stones
mirror the current.
A river go underground.
When it returns,
it carries the weight of earth.
As the river ages,
it expands the valley
giving all of us a place to sit.
