imagine hating rivers
Rouge and Wabash
imagine loving one
just for its name
Au Sable
being ravished by another
for its song
Shenandoah
being pretty afraid of one
the Mississippi
when you were on her
in a steamboat
needing no locks
because of the height
and the speed of that
flood
being denied two
the Colorado and the Green
because someone had to stay
with your mad mother
while the rest of the family
whitewater-rafted
cherishing one
the Hudson
for its history and its art
serving one
the Delaware
with your life
In Carolyn Foote Edelmann’s New Hope years, her poems buttressed the Dump the Pump campaign. In Princeton University’s Continuing Education program, her mentors were Ted Weiss, Galway Kinnell, and Stanley Plumly. Co-founder of Princeton’s Cool Women, her most recent poetic publication is in Cool Women, Volume VII and U.S.1 [Poets] Worksheet.
Poet’s Corner is curated by Bucks County Poet Laureate Tom Mallouk and supported by a grant to the Bucks County Herald Foundation made possible by Marv and Dee Ann Woodall.
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