Mon River Suite
Poetry by Grace Smith.
Crossing Over
From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Elegy for Bridge 9340
"Steel trusses & gusset plates gave way:/Splintered concrete bones, somersaults//Of beams"
Still Life, Ohio Valley
"In early morning the tributaries / at Pittsburgh meld, then flow on / for centuries"
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
When Did the Milwaukee River Become ‘Unswimmable’?
An excerpt from The Milwaukee Anthology.
Sipu Asuwakana (River Songs)
By D.A. Lockhart Chikënëmwi Sipu Listen as the creek trickles past sugar maple creek bends, this steady amble along [...]