<small>Stop and use this page as a prompt if you wish, or continue on from here. Or you could [[a mind to meander|go back to where the river begins]].</small> ---- What is a river? Something incongruent? Is a river the water, Or [[the current that flows through]] it? Is a river the rocks and mud that make up its bed? Is a river the moss and algae Or the fallen trees instead? If one fills a bucket With water from a stream Would that bucket's contents then be the river's facsimile? [[If the water were to vanish]], Would the river then abscond? And if its walls were to leave instead, Would that shapeless water be a pond? What is a river? Is it the docks upon its banks? Is it the murmuring and the muttering Or the [[boats of steel and planks]]? The living beings inside it? The assorted debris? The fishing line and bobbers? The colonial reverie? Even those inside it Don't know what to gleam When asking what a river is And [[what divides it from the sea]] > – AxoLofa