Daughter
Published in Poem Of The Day
Let us take the river
path near Fall Hill.
There we will negotiate
an outcrop with its silvered
initials & other bits of graffiti,
all the way to the broken edge
that overlooks the bend,
& hold hands until
we can no longer tell
where the river ends.
About this poem
"I wrote this poem for my daughter Emma and for the Rappahannock, the river we both love."
-Jon Pineda
About Jon Pineda
Jon Pineda is the author of "Little Anodynes" (University of South Carolina Press, 2015). He teaches at the University of Mary Washington and lives in Fredericksburg, Va.
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(c) 2015 Jon Pineda. Originally published by the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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