If The River Could Speak

UofG Tower from the bridge over the Kelvin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says One of the options on the Write Out 2026 Choice Board is a prompt to consider the voice of a river. You can learn more about the prompt — including a walk through an urban block by Amanda Eke of The Poet Speaks and Puerto Rican poet and educator Mario José Pagán Morales here. Think of a waterway near you or one that have visited. What would it say if it could speak? What memories might it hold? What wishes? I chose the River Kelvin, and this is the poem she dictated to me: The River Kelvin I meander south Then wander west My sisters join me as I flow Then, hearing a familiar voice I rush south, as fast as I can Down past an ancient seat of learning (Though not as ancient as I!) And join my mother Clyde to journey on together