The Footbridge

Leeds, MA

Disused. Obsolete.
   I’m sure. Quite so.
But still, how sad: this too, this human feat,
            Must go.

No more will footfall sound
    Along the planks.
The iron rusted red like clay around
            The banks.

The brook will ever wend
   To sea, to sea!
As if to say that yes, it too will end
            As we.

Daniel Rattelle studied poetry at the University of St Andrews. His poems have recently been published in First Things, Alabama Literary Review, the North American Anglican, and Dappled Things.

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