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The poetic city: “The Single Drop”

Sep 20, 2021 • Creative Writing

Fall from the Catskills. (Photo by: Kelley Crawford)

The Single Drop

Whenever I have the opportunity

to contemplate a waterfall

I always look for that single drop

that separates itself from the rest…

The one that’s flung from the cascade

as it goes over the falls,

rises to the zenith of its arc,

and catches the sun before

plunging back into the rushing flow.

Then I make a wish that my life

might have a moment in the light

and be an inspiration as the single drop

always is for me.

Reece Burka

9/12/2021

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