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



First published in
Western Friend Magazine,
also in Willows Wept Review and
selahriver poetry collection

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