The Current

by J.S. O’Keefe / July 26th, 2026

The tribe tells the drought how
the river forgot its name,
and the wells cracked open—
no other memory remained.
The people live inside a sentence:
the water is a bouncing bird,
flaps its wings, sings its breath.
The legend returns
to the current in the stone.
J.S. O’Keefe’s short stories, essays and poems have been published in Everyday Fiction, WENSUM, Roi Faineant, 101 Words, Spillwords, AntipodeanSF, 50WS, Friday Flash Fiction, etc. Read other articles by J.S., or visit J.S.'s website.

This article was posted on Sunday, July 26th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.