dropped into a shallow river.
In three months it will be girdled
with moss, its bottom firm in the mud.
Soon fish arrive to store
their eggs in the notches and cracks.
In time baby fish will find holes
and settle beneath the rock.
Then come turtles that love
the shade behind the rocky shoulder
and the taste of ducklings swimming by.
A few snakes sense life in the water,
so they creep over, digging tunnels,
sharpening poison; they climb up
to sun their bellies on the rock--
I don't budge.
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