Military Maneuvers

No ice on the water, not 
yet cold enough for that.
So, perhaps it's CGI, or a
rolled-out simulacrum, 
blue-tinged, as if the light 

is reflecting off something
solid. The animals crossed 
first, horses & ostriches, then 
the tanks & troop carriers. 
Scribes recorded the pass-

ages of passage, read back 
what they had written, & 
then they crossed as well. 
Providing a verbal sense of 
armies on the move, but

with little seismic evidence. 
Later, as night fell, an old 
man in a dog cart full of 
kindling forded the stream. 
It was then the earth shook.