What river is this with its slow oxbow curves, I wonder as the plane comes down to land, past shipyards, a barge pulling behind it a long banner of wake, a spray of white birds. Philadelphia: a place I don’t know well, don’t remember from time to time. The map tells me the bigger river is the Delaware; the smaller, which I’ve learned before, though not to pronounce, is the Schuylkill. The art museum is on the latter, I think; I took a smoky picture once. I met a friend from California there by chance, both of us there to see an exhibit of Cornell boxes.
image: an aerial view of a portion of the Potomac River immediately south of Washington, District of Columbia, MSGT Ken Hammond
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