Live Branch Reach
Writhing twists of growing
Corded effort stretched
Out westward
From the knotted
Leaning
Shadow dark trunk,
Bright sunlight
On the contorted
Slow-year braided flow,
Tribulating
Over
Dry boulders,
Stone-strewn
On the sand-creeked streambed;
Stretched wooden waves
Driftwood wrenched,
Intertwined effort
Convoluting,
Live branch reach
Tributaries
Flowing west with
New green growth
Behind and above
The under shadows
On the barred river sand,
Living driftwood river
--Daniel Wilcox
First published in
Western Friend Magazine,
also in Willows Wept Review
and selah river poetry collection
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