What's Under A River - Molly Fisk

[Lawrence Robinson]

What's Under A River

 Hundreds of stones.
 Under the stones, what's left of centuries:
 sand, silt, the bones of spawned salmon
 and old steelhead
 - calcium leaching into the water -
 and under the shadows of bone: a carved bed,
 indigenous rock
 opening and softening
 but so slowly no one can hear it.
 Under the stolid rock is motion again, the migration
 of ghosts, nations moving, hauling their minerals,
 smoke and imagination -
 and deeper,
 farther,
 under it all:
 love, resting -
 and diamonds, burning.

	- Molly Fisk
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