a horseshoe-shaped lake formed when a wide meander of a river is cut off from the main channel

Thought meanders like an oxbow lake
it begins in the shallows
with the  current pushing us along
then we veer into the depths, cloudy with sedimentation:
thoughts, feelings, speculations, hopes, fears
where we can wallow when young.

As the river creates land out of water
or water out of land
so thought takes us back
back to wallow in the mud
of deep depressions

We wander far from the main drag
isolated at this stem of this river
of time, cut off, besieged by water
and land and people

Time and motion have created
a new a free-standing body of water
and a new landform - a billabong
as the Wiradjuri people of Australia say. 

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