Grey-green industrial cleaner <br />miscalled the Tiber <br />washes around the frozen ship <br />of Aesculapius <br />where the snakes went ashore. <br /> <br />But the grassy margin survives, <br />and in its withered sedge <br />complacent ducks nest, <br />paddle across the polluted water, <br />and bottom-up feeding.<br /><br />Kathleen Griffin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tiber/
