Rio Negro

POSTED IN contemporary poetry July 29, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rio Negro

On page 87 of the Oxford Atlas
I found the pencil-drawn line of a long forgotten

journey I once planned. The curved arrow
points to the Amazon estuary then draws a circle around Belém,

Tocatins, running further across Rio Paro to Ilha dos Macacos,
Antônio Lemos;

the line then follows the river upstream:
Paraguara, Santarem, Terra Santa, Ita-

piranga, Sao Jose, Manaus, Arcuipelago de
las Anavilhanas, Taupecacu, Moura.

Finally, circled, with a small arrow
inside the circle – Rio Negro, Rio Negro.

 

 

Tomica Bajsic