A Wolf on the FoldRiver, River
We will tell them we were from Earth,
the place made of earth,
and they will examine our Earth earth and wonder
how we name things, and wonder how our
language wends like the mighty River River
Avon, Nile, Cuyahoga, a thousand others
with enshrined generic names –
and they will cross our Desert Deserts and
live our baleful lives;
and they will wonder how we
lived like this