Poem by Jack Troy: Befriending a Nameless Stream

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Poem by Jack Troy: Befriending a Nameless Stream

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Befriending a Nameless Stream

β€œThe impeded stream is the one that sings.” 

Wendell Berry

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I am of two minds about the stream running

beside the path I’ve walked for forty years.

Early on, we were level with one another

but here it’s carved a narrow gorge

deeper than I am tall; an easy leap for deer.

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Last week, a day after the rain stopped,

it spoke to me in six languages, first in the narrow cascade

where it leapt away from a clay shelf

to a frothy yammering in a narrow bowl

it means to deepen with mad hydraulics.

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From there it slithered, slowing its passage,

catching up with itself behind a sturdy limbΒ 

fallen crosswise, trapping twigs and leaves,Β 

where reflections float steady,

mirroring a pine’s bare root.

Above the streambed, inches deep and

soft with settlings, a dace flutters,

then another and another. Have they made it

through that lisping filigree of leaks

breaching the flotsam dam downstream?

Jack Troy


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