Water

by Gaby Bedetti Issue: Fall/Winter 2019 Special Issue on Margins

Often flood victims return and rebuild

close to the river that will threaten them again.

And after each inundation, a mark on a post

 

will say how high the water rose, a point of pride.

We’re born in water and by water.

Riding the waters saved the animals,

 

though God challenged the shipwright,

testing his mettle with days of pelting rain.

They survived by trusting the waves.

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Gaby Bedetti

Gaby Bedetti's poems have appeared in Italian-Americana, North Dakota Quarterly, Still: The Journal, and elsewhere. Recently she received an Artistic Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She teaches Comedy as an Artistic Approach and an editing course that publishes at Eastern Kentucky University’s literary and arts journal.

Fall/Winter 2019 Special Issue on Margins