Assabet Reservoir (Mill Pond), Westborough, Massachusetts
Dammed in 1970 to prevent flooding, this wall has stopped Assabet in her baby steps,
recasting the river into the pond,
where plants, birds, and others have found an idyllic place to stay.
There is a hole in the wall through which some water is allowed to move-on
and this point they call the start of Assabet... not a romance,
but a give-and-take that enriches,
giving water and taking a piece of life that she has helped create.
All these flowers, dragonflies, dreamy ducks, nesting Ospreys,
and Cormorants,
drying their wings over there,
they are all Assabet...
