Monday, August 28, 2023

The Platte

 

Long, narrow islands

grow slowly over the years,

by inches, by a few feet

in the Platte River.



Ever-changing sandbars

are made and remade,

formed and transformed.


by a slow, shallow current,

meandering, weaving

between massive cottonwoods

that fortify the river banks.



Some of the cottonwoods were

born when horses pulled wagons

east to west through 

the long state of Nebraska

along the curves of the Platte,



carrying all of its past

in the slow current 

into the future.

© 2023 Richard Havenga




Photo Locations:

1. 2. & 3. North Platte, Nebraska


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