<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">THE RIVER NORTH</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">you can’t imagine </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">dying </span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">for a cause.</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">nothing is pure.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">when i began </span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">to follow the river </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">north</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">everywhere </span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">i looked she </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">picked up her bags</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">looking </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">north.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">the synchronicity, she said</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">looking.</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">yes, i said.</span></font><br clear="all">
<br><br><div><b>Laura Theobald</b> is a recent graduate in literature and creative writing from the University of Tampa. She currently works various jobs and lives in Atlanta. Her works have appeared on <i>plain china, Glass Mountain, Quilt, <a href="http://movingpoems.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">movingpoems.com</a>, </i>and most recently in a collaborative piece titled "these sentences are not a poem" in <i>Typo Magazine.</i></div>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>