River Don't Know

River don’t know

That the shortest distance

Between two points

Is straight.

He meeee-anders

And winds his way down around

Through the meadow

And the Sweet Gum Trees.

And like that long and crooked finger

That tickes, “Come on,”

River surely do go

Through the lowest of places—

The valleys, and down,

And on,

Makin’ his way to the deeps.

-jenn long