a small, quiet, slow-moving, placid, shallow stream of water

Greg Fallis

The creek: I am a small, quiet, slow-moving, placid, shallow stream of water. I am home to minnows and chubs, to frogs and turtles, to snakes and ferrets, to kingfishers and herons and the red-winged blackbird. I’ve meandered untroubled through this land for more than twenty thousand years, along a path first carved by glaciers.

Once or twice during each of those thousands of years, I overflow the banks that confine me. My waters return nutrients to the land, making the earth fertile and allowing new life to grow. I sweep away whatever has accumulated on the banks, cleansing the land, purging it, leaving behind a rich deposit of soil and silt. This is what I do, what I’ve always done, what I’ll always do.

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