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SURPRISES!!!

I love water -- oceans, lakes, rivers.  To celebrate the publication of Macaroni Boy, here’s a poem I’ve written. Enjoy!

WATERWAYS*
by
Katherine Ayres

Sing a song of waterways that journey to the sea,
Yellowstone, Wabash, Potomac, Tennessee.
From mountain creeks they tumble, along steep stony beds,
Alabama, Yukon, Sacramento, Red.

In spring the water's icy, as mountain snowdrifts thaw,
Colorado, Susquehanna, Arkansas.
The summer flow is gentle, it cools the sunburnt land,
Illinois, Cumberland, Pecos, Rio Grande.

Trees turn gold—the current slows, when autumn nips the air,
Mississippi, Kansas, Osage, Delaware  
Winter makes the rivers chill as snow begins to whirl,
Columbia, Salmon, Chattahoochee, Pearl.

Sing a song of waterways that journey to the sea,
Yellowstone, Wabash, Potomac, Tennessee.  

[*copyright 2002 Katherine Ayres]

I really do love rivers.  Here I am paddling my red kayak along a quiet stretch of the
Housatonic River in Western Massachusetts.