Every river a keening.<\/p>\n
The Seine: I was flayed on my back, dress
\nshrouding, shoes drifting away, I was inventing
\nmy own madness and drowning
\nhappily in it.<\/p>\n
The Rhine: I posed on a rock, singing men
\nto their deaths, that must
\nhave been me, the woman left and lost and singing,
\nisn\u2019t that the clich\u00e9, victim swung aggressor?<\/p>\n
\nUnnamed river: taunting.<\/p>\n
Every river a repository for the impossible
\n or what I feared was failure, all my seasons overflowing
\n with need.
\n Every river a conversation in a cryptic language,
\n I waved my forked stick, seeking
\n hidden branches, lost tributaries, the tense fable
\n of skin.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Retablo for impossible waters Every river a keening. The Seine: I was flayed on my back, dress shrouding, shoes drifting away, I was inventing my own madness and drowning happily in it. The Rhine: I posed on a rock, singing men to their deaths, that must have been me, the woman left and lost and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[408,405],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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