Photo: found at wikimedia.com – Nowitna River
“Life is like a river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” Emma Smith
When Rivers Change
When rivers change
as rivers do
unstraightened into bends,
sweeping earth from
side to side and back again,
they subvert and challenge
every shibboleth and quasi-truth
embedded in the byzantine routines
of our quotidian humanness,
which until that moment
remained unnoticed, hidden,
in the accepted drudge of
our self-created lives as
if this were the only way to live,
and for evermore.
Not so, shout the rivers,
today your habit is interrupted,
you’ll need to go by another route.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
