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Rein In, Ride On

beneath the frothy rapids 
   along splashy river shallows, 

   strewn with sunken rocks, 
      crawls a delicate sand shrimp, 

      slender and transparent, 
         the color of colorless cellophane;


having long discovered 
   the right body tilts and moves,

   it is able to rein in and ride on 
      the fastest, often swirling, flow 

     of the invisible undercurrent,  
        gliding to where it wants to go;


but, perhaps the shrimp doesn't  
   manipulate the current after all,

   perhaps it just yields to each
      flow and abandons its original

      wishes, having been convinced
         about what it can and cannot do !

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