Erie Goliath
water in waves of red paint
eats away at the tree that
itself tore half the bank into the water.
its corpse is host to goldenrod
changed course to grow upward
a crown to the silhouette.
mud and roots make the shape of the shaggy monster
and cold air is now the memory of a warning.
About the Author: Meredith Wattle is an amateur writer from Buffalo, New York.
Image Credit: “The Coming Storm, Lake Erie.” (1926) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
As It Ought To Be 