Creek
Now it is easy to find where the creek dwindles, where it thickens at last, where its mouth closes into a ditch near the highway. The world was also small when you were young—trees bowed inwardly giving you leaves for you had light in your vessel jumping and lapping like the creek carried home in a mason jar, a small audience of ghosts following you in the wind, like wind, continued ahead as birds. Now it is impossible to be a creek (rub clay inside the canals of your ears swallow a small stone). Don’t you remember? Its face is an eye—it’s only you who sees your memories run across it.
