Riversong (Memorial Potamology)
A.S. Coomer
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As we lay low Another of the gifted A stray feather flutter-step dancing Above the shifting snowpack Drifts down to join the snowmelt Another drop in the flow Downstream, the dream everchanging You'll never wade out into the same river No one ever does Life a timelapse of the flood We count the hours by the silt rings Left on the sodden warping walls With each tick a lessening Recession gradual but never quite complete Nature's song swells We bleed as we sing Those left behind Met at the haunt A flotilla of ghostships Circling a single, tired mooring 22 songs for leaving We offered up our songs Words swirling skyward in cloudsmoke Raining down on brittle snowcrust Easing towards a lessening Erosion, sure, but welcome Against choking alluvium Our vice hardened hearts clotting With detritus, mangled branches & shorn shingles, mistakes & reckonings, Otters, coots, and mallards displaced Rain-soaked refugees wading Through muck and debris Seeking new, higher banks Just like the rest of us There are those that take advantage Use the roiling for dumping off Tires and garbage, old appliances & the lapped smooth stones of need You can find them on the bridges Shifty eyes scanning for witnesses Dropping what is bald and useless End over end ending in a splash wave Lost in the tumultuous brown churning The waters accept with indifference Burying under or carrying along Another abandoned verse of riversong
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