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by Francine Witte
Niagara Falls, and I stand at the place where the river is calm and ripple and swim of fish. I can see the brink, that spot where the water tumbles over the ragged ledge. It is hypnotic and, in my head, my surrender arms open as I float over the falls. I finally back away and watch that beautiful cascade of waterfall, the twist and ribbon of it, and the mist rising up like an unformed genie. Never again, would I doubt the power of nature. Never again would I trust a river, to stay still, to be calm, to stay a river.
Francine Witte is a flash fiction writer and poet, and the author of the flash collection RADIO WATER. Her newest poetry book, Some Distant Pin of Light, has just been published by Cervena Barva Press. Her work has been widely published, and she is a recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize.
