A bend in the river
The serpentine and ageless liquid
Mercurial possessed snake
Eternally swallowed
Since the beginning of time
One unquenchable thirst to gorge and slake
Slurping up an icy cold mountainous pebbly shake
Yet fresh as an Irish spring
Using thy tongue o Gaelic spake
Then tumbling down into the cavernous abyss
Subsequently carving
A deep criss cross patchwork
Across the rock hard rugged topography
Like the handiwork of some invincible force
Commandeering a humungous rake
Affixing legendary signature
Quasi-indelible grooves
Only for the near indomitable
Chiseled masterpiece
To be erased, twisted then wrenched
By that natural landscape altering phenomena
Identified as an earth quake
Creating a fresh tabula rasa to begin anew
Inviting waters from on high to carve
From the ebbing and flowing millennial currents
Which eventually find a more direct course
Beginning as trickling creek
Swells from winter rains
And thence in summer while the sun doth bake
When flora blooms and fauna prance
The firmament then abandons
Bent elbow oxbow lake
As a former bend in the river.
