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  • River Capture1
  • Jan-Henry Gray (bio)

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

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.

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