the river at whitebrook by Rg Gregory
the winding wye curls into my senses feliniously
there's no such word but no such river merely exists
where this river slivers between the dream and the time i camped by it
has left a furmark on my inward skin it takes only a wet thought
for hunchbacked woods and a drift of mist lifting off the silver water
to sidle onto the retina where the lazy mind's at ease (nectar's the drinks all round)
this is my river that went underground before priapus found its tongue
and every flowing girl ran her hair down between those wise green banks
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