The cold green river’s
love allures you
into a swirl
then lets you go.
It can offer only
in an undertow
its cold green heart
to a sinking you.
That green heart
is sad and old
and will only leave you
when you are cold.
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Reading Homer to the Ducks Copyright © 2018 by Rick Steele & Screeching Cockatiel Self-Publishers is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.