Enjoy this reading of The Current by Michael Williams from Dragons of Eternity, the final novel in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. You can pick up a copy of Dragons of Eternity here: https://amzn.to/3AnAwYr
The Current
By Michael Williams
From this height, on dragonback
Aloft in a swift sirocco of wings
The river unfolds itself like a shy god
Intuited by sunlight
In a spindrift of reeds,
Flowing to one horizon
And one only, as the proverbs say.
And yet, in a slow descending
To the languor and stink of marshlands
The river complicates,
Its gray and linear flow
Becomes a tortuous current
Emerging, baffled by light
Into a branching country.
Fly lower still, the ruffle of wings
Disturbing the water now,
And see the river bristle
With strider and minnow and fly
All things teeming and tending downstream
Begetting and dying and always devouring
As the current descends toward nothing.
Floating down to die.
But there in the midst of the current
In the possible flow of waters,
The backflow, obstruction of towheads
Pools of hope behind rocks,
The great complexity is a promise
That what might be the meaning
The design we had always expected
Arises, then rides downstream.
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