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………………………………………….I walk beside
………………………………………………a river
………………………………………………….which cracks
………………………………………………with insufficient cold
………………………………………….as ice breaks away
………………………………………………returning to itself
………………………………………………………..I cannot help
…………………………………………………….feeling
………………………………………………….there is something more
………………………………………………beneath that fragile surface
……………………………………………maybe that
………………………………………….is where it went—
………………………………………………the watch
………………………………………………….I lost in third grade
………………………………………………the only doll
………………………………………….I owned as a child
………………………….the name this river used to have
………………………………………….the language
………………………………………………in which it was spoken
………………………………………….which still bubbles up
……………………………………between fissures
………………………………………….to shape a bank
……………………………………near this pathway’s sign:
………………………….Rewilding In Progress
Author’s Bio
Skylar Kay is an emerging writer from Calgary, Alberta. Haiku and other Japanese forms of art interest her greatly, though she is trying to expand her repertoire so she can provide a better life for her cat, Soup.