Boggy Brook
In flood the stream is still a walk over.
A limp washing of the land,
a hesitant flow, never meant to be a tributary,
or delta of anything much at all.
Here and there, the no name trickle
turns into only a turgid sludge.
The opaque water slides through
low, and unremarkable,
then after a mile or less, it muddily seeps
into a dank wallow of bottomland.
It recently has been given a name,
a new housing development
is being built beside its indefinite banks,
it is now named: Sweet Water Creek.
Such is the lie
of the land around here.
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