Nature seldom flies as does 
				the crow.
				That's not the way most things go.
				The wash, the river, the goose-necked coast,
				all strive to swerve and meander most. 
			
            
            
			 
			
			 
			
			 
            First appeared in Island Advantages, a 
			small newspaper in
			Stonington, Maine, in 1997 or 1998.