by PW Covington
american Danube
american Yangtze
american Indus, Mekong, Congo, Amazon, Nile, Jordan
Styx
american drain, scouring caustic
american vein, ever-bleeding
into the inherent oceanheart
of every tear
that fell
on The Middle Passage
a debt
a gulf
that Itasca
nor millions of
would-be tributaries
can ever fill
these are waters
that know
how many drops of pain
it takes
to fill a saxophone
bathe here,
bathe
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Whew…”how many drops of pain/it takes/to fill a saxaphone”