Columbia River

What resplendent face had
the lucky job of placing rivers,
a profession of pure happiness?

By the banks of a river, 
we spoke our first syllables;
we first adorned our faces.

We first saw ourselves in rivers: 
the same loss of memory, 
the same inability to be still.

HANNAH RODABAUGH

Hannah Rodabaugh is the author of Lost Cathedral (forthcoming, Cornerstone Press) and three chapbooks of poetry. Her work is featured in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and has twice been an artist-in-residence for the National Park Service. She teaches at Boise State University and The Cabin Literary Center.