My Love is a Flooding River

- Poetry -

I cried out to the river,
   "My love! Stay within your shores."
She spilled over,
   and raging towards, sang,
      "Love, abandon your moorings
      and rage towards with me."
         Walking from my back door
            I wandered, wading into her waters,
               took off my wellies
               and shook off my father,
               called to my mother
               that I am her daughter,
               and communing with cottonmouths and ancient rage
                  I swam into my love
​                  and went under.