Our rivers

Your rivers and ours/it's all the big water/one aquatic membership/in a great militant Hydrology

(Gordie Howe Bridge. Photo courtesy of We Build Value.com)

Our rivers

Your rivers and ours 
it's all the big water 
one aquatic membership 
in a great militant 

Hydrology. 

Some rivers clean a lot 
of plates, others replace 
York boats, take polar bears
to spots where the char 
run out

Some float flotsam fit for 
a picaresque, Hatfields
and McCoys, others dam 
through June and bite 
everything that moves.

Your rivers and mine 
fight over knowing 
whether eddies or tides
can track a storm best

The sky, like a curling 
rink, a water polo pool 
or a team from the tropics

Who flies their elbows high 
in a regulation arena, it pisses 
on human fire. 

The bridge over one of our 
shared rivers is named Gordie
(Howe the hell did that happen)

But the real question is 
what role did rivers play 
in making ours 
a republic and ours 
a dominion.

-Jeremy Nathan Marks