clean energy?

A Bound Stream

a bound stream:

two ways diverge

because our country, in time of great war,

needed power, so it dammed the river

and forced the great bulk of the flow

down 6 mile long tunnels to the new hydroelectric plant,

and left only a small stream to meander down the valley,

on our left, a placid stream barely moves,

all that the dam above allows to remember

of a wild river’s moodiness,

while on our right, the river roars out of those miles-long tunnels,

turns turbines, and then remakes the river,

what price should be paid for clean energy?

by Henry H. Walker

May 20, ’13