I have been photographing rivers and rocks, fields, trees. I have been on the interstate. I have not had a map, but I check my trusty phone for directions every once in a while. I feel like I am letting the river of a few days off take me deep into blues, yellows, clouds, the moon and patterns in fields.
River Map by Mary Ruefle
River Map by Mary RuefleBeing human, I stop
for a moment of rapport
with the external world.
Being on an interstate
there are no robins, fields
or streams nearby.
Being nonetheless
resourceful, I have a map.
I see that I am somewhere on the map.
The road is like a river,
soon it will meet another river.
Better get with it
I say to the map floating downstream,
its blues and yellows still distinct,
folded, not yet wet, an object
of beauty and curiosity
to the birds overhead and
the fishes below.
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