National Poetry Month Day 9: “Prophecy: After the Dam” by Camille Dungy

Prophecy: After the Dam

                the floodplains do bloom_____ the horsetail die+++++ the wheat
its thousand thousand eyes eyeing a fat future _____nods and nods never fearing

                the peasants plant potatoes plant turnips___ radish and carrot
                                even the mice leave the hovels and make camp in the fields

when an inland bird calls from the roof thatch the boatwright will turn from bowsprits
                and train his son to cobble

                                                only the bright-chested bird knows the end of this song
                but he is winging over water and must not waste his breath to sing

Camille Dungy

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