The River Has Roots

by Amal El-Mohtar

(What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?)

i just know this is gonna be goooood....

But that is the nature of grammar—it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.

I didnt know where she was going with the grammar theme....but she did the damn thing