Slowmoving 

*

A mountain cataract
has great speed
as it travels
from heights alone.

The Mississippi
flows slowly
with the weight
of many.... all One.

-saiom shriver-

*

Footnote: The Mississippi-Missouri

is the world's 4th longest river after

the Amazon, Nile, and Yangtze.

At its widest it is 11 miles.

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