Downstream

meadow of Trewsbury Mead
and here I am over 200 miles
later. I’ve followed the course
of the river at Oxford,
Henley, Windsor and Eton.
I’ve been on a boat to
Hampton Court, strolled
through Richmond and Kew,
crossed the bridges through
London and paddled at
Greenwich. I’ve visited
Victorian bathing spots and
the sites of twentieth-century
seaside city beaches, and at