Animal River Poems

It was neither
a good place
nor bad
to end up.
It just was.

The roan lay amongst
glowing pebbles,
the silky water
spreading out its mane.
A grey eye,
just under,
looked up
searching for the...

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Where I looked
Don't look at it anymore
So I surrendered to a woman-river
Hemlock juice across the river blue
I am blue-throated; Duel flaps its wings
Let's go through...

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cubs getting hungry
     salmon swimming up the stream
          easy catch for bear
...

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The river was swollen from the melting snow,
with rhythmic pulsing it ebbed and it flowed.
The earth was hard and still unyielding.
The man stood weak with...

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babies on her back
     the possum crossed the river
          a log was...

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Life is quite good
-indoors in Inwood.
It’s uptown Manhattan
at the northern tip
-the northern tip is
the tippity-top,
where the kitty cat 
Calvin loathes to stop 
-cat napping.
Curled in...

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The soft clip-clop of the horse 
echoed amongst the dark fir trees.
The tall man rode bareback
along the winding path of the forest.

Resting on his leathery...

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	water
	squatter...

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From the deep soil 
of mountains and hills 
Flows down the rocks 
to mould its path 

So form the river
the source of life 
Fresh and...

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rain-splattered waters
	burbles in rising river ~
		beaver trims rudder...

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It was the kind of heated up August that fried toads
My sisters and I sneaked off to the riverbank
Don’t get wet! Our mother warned us
We...

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You entered our lives as a soul of an angel 
Traveling a distance 
From the likes of Grange Hill
Your health from the beginning 
Was such...

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bear wading in the stream
     bear grabs a jumping salmon          
 ...

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Crocodile river, 
When
         a lion roar 
                       in the jungle,
Many  
         animals
                     tremble, 
But 
      when 
               it
                 is tirtsty, 
And 
   ...

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river is waist deep
ambience of lily pads 
swings elephant trunks
multitude of rubbernecks
in dugout canoes; and me

1/31/2023...

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