Dennis Creek
by Sondra Ball
Dennis Creek ...
Who were you named after?
Was it for the first white baby boy
born beside your waters?
Did he care that Lenapi children
used to skip stones across you?
Was it for the first white man
who built a house beside you?
Did he care that Lenapi men
had built their homes beside you
for a thousand years?
I wonder what the Lenapi called you,
on lazy summer afternoons,
while they fished in your brown waters.
        copyright 1997 sondra ball
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 þ SLMR 2.1a þ I like persons better than principles. - Oscar Wilde
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