The river creates
and carves out
the heart
of the city.
In 1900, after
seventy-
seven years of
sludge
and shit and
sewage
had spilled,
the stream was
turned
and for the first
time
the silt began
flowing south.
However, in
the deepest
bowels
of winter
the churning
bottom currents
crawl blindly
back along
the riverbed
remembering their
ancestral
route, making
their migration
against the
machinations of man;
home.
