Jake's Flea Market

the river is another animal

here
where the hindwaters overtake
the forewaters and stay

and the forewaters plunge
forward and wait
for the hindwaters to overtake

where the river gallops
down mountain

where the river leaps
between the feet of a meeting
of mountains

here
selenium     arsenic     mercury
     chromium     cadmium     lead
     sulfuric acid
flavour
the coal dust that bleeds
out of open wounds
down the backs of mountains
into the veins of the river