Elizabeth's Channel
When she
finally
discovered
the channel that
her daughter used
to swim
upstream
she felt as if she had joined her
and found a way of countering
death
throwing herself
into her daughter’s skin
or was it
her daughter in her skin
the two
of them
working
furiously
to beat back
the waters that must go down.
Sitting on the rocks at the falls
water gushing over her body—
it is good to be alive.
Riverfest 2009
Went to Riverfest today, and remembered when Elizabeth and Ryanne and Cassie all performed the puppet show in the Kiddy Corner near the post office. The children wore hand puppets of animals and acted out a play about the environment. Her picture was in the paper. There were children over there today.
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