Gradually
Or among the flush
The trickle cultivates
Until no habit
Is left uninterested
Wince. Realign.
Unknown headwaters
Creek crawling, branches
Off in capillaries
As saplings often do.
Choose-
Act (or) react?
No man is furniture
Momentum only arrives
As dams ebb, on stilts,
As dried earth’s jowl
Rills riverbeds upwards
Out of once
Stagnant streams.
Shannon Eddy graduated from the University of Rhode Island
with a BA in English in 2009. Before and since graduation he has worked with
the Ocean State Summer Writer’s Conference. His poems can be found online and
in print at Chaparral, The Splinter Generation, and The Naugatuck River Review
as well as others.
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