River flows...
The freshet this day
.. starts on my roof,
.... flows down my sidewalk,
...... joins the neighborhood ditch,
......... before it's name becomes River.
A little downstream
.. the eagles sit watch,
..... the mergansers float by,
....... and fishers whip water,
......... in hopes of rainbow quicksilver.
So too time flows
.. from now to then,
..... from then 'till tomorrow
...... and watchers sit by
..........casting lines and nets.
How do you
.. contribute to the flow,
.... snatch krill as they float by,
...... merely watch for drift
......... and fetch up in its logjams?
--r.anderson
