Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America

Theatre of the Confluence (A Carixa)

164 | Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century from Little Theatres Theatre of the Confluence (A Carixa) A little river and a big river the story of the bronchials Some of earth’s heartbeat but not all The water rose in the little river and washed the big river away Some of the lungs’ telluric memory The story of a river mouth and a confluence From such a place you can hear the river or you can breathe but you have to choose or it chooses you If it chooses you you are an asthmatic Now you can live here forever You can sit under the oak leaves and feel wet spray The big river and the little river The story of breath in a meander The big river and the little river A little story of leaves the river swept away ...