- River Capture1
for three voicesrepeat each once, the second timeonly repeat the dashed lines
1. | 2. | 3. |
-to bend | ||
to mouth | ||
-to rock | ||
to run | ||
-to rill | ||
to fall | ||
-to flow | ||
to river ------------------- | -to bend | |
-a stream | to mouth | |
-to cross | -to rock | |
-to rock | to run | |
to knot | -to rill | |
-& meander | to fall | |
-to braid | -to flow ------------------- | -to bend |
-to bridge | to river | -to mouth |
to fall | -a stream | to rock |
to field | to cross | -to run |
-to flood | -to rock | -to rill |
-to knot | -to fall | |
-there’s a river | -& meander | -to flow |
-past the trees | -to braid | to river |
-over the fence | to bridge | -a stream |
-on the other side | -to fall | -to cross |
-of the field | -to field | -to rock |
-to flood | -to knot & meander | |
-there’s a river | -to braid | |
-past the trees | -to bridge | |
-across the bridge | to fall | |
-on the other side | to field | |
-of the bend | -to flood | |
-there’s a river | ||
-filled with rocks | ||
-under a fallen tree | ||
-there’s a river | ||
-filled with rocks | ||
-under a fallen tree |
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Jan-Henry Gray is the author of the chapbook Selected Emails.His first book, Documents, was selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. An Undocupoets and Kundiman fellow, he currently teaches at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn.
Notes
1. Jan-Henry Gray, “River Capture,” from Documents. Copyright © 2019 by Jan-Henry Gray. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.