June Creek

12 June 2015, Hyalite Creek

Perpetuity

The Monongahela

named by the Lenni Lenape

means place where banks cave in

Calving banks of dark humus

An annuity of perpetuity

Effluent plants and animals

luminous constellations

mechanical without end

Some five and a half pounds

of crematorium ash swirling

down river. A time lapse

image of planets and stars