Day 9 - @WriteOutConnect, #WriteOut2024 - Letting a River Run through Me (in this case, the Housatonic in Connecticut)

And just like that, it's Tuesday, and Day 9 of the 2024 #WriteOut. Happy to work with another National Historical Park's prompt.

Tuesday, Abridged (in Stratford, Connecticut)

b.r.crandall

There are no 

  mountains in

Stratford, but

Mohicans

   found higher grounds 

  north, in the ol’ Bay State,

above from where I 

      drive/walk/run/ride,

avoiding Walmart traffic

& the chaos from

that depot of homes & construction.

At times, I ride along this river

wishing to launch a green kayak

upon its stiller waters …

      (with more egrets & less regrets).

Beth & Dan live across

from

a wildlife preserved 

in the name of an oyster farmer.

It’s not a Louisiana bayou,

but their sunsets

might as well be,

and the fox follies,

the running across their yard

is like oxygen. Lungs.

Sometimes this river journeys through me,

as if I’m brackish or a watershed

(maybe even a wetland)

and I hope it understands

the McDonald’s cups & plastic bags

tossed out of human windows

is sad, even to me.