This poem is composed entirely of the names of rivers found in Michigan.

Michigan River Song

This lovely essay was written by Michigan journalists Martha Elizabeth Cram Bates and Mary Knizek Buck. It was published in 1891 in Traverse City by the Grand Traverse Herald. 

The full text can be found here: https://gtjournal.tadl.org/2014/to-traverse-point-and-return-m-e-c-bates/

"To Traverse Point and Return," from Along Traverse Shores

The Michiganographer reads "When the Shoe Fits" by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski from her collection "Smudging."* Named MSU's  Distinguished Professor Emeritus, she has published over 30 books of poetry. Her poems have been labeled "Beat" and "confessional" but they often defy labels, as the poet does herself.

*Copyright 1974, Black Sparrow Press.

The music bed is the traditional Lakes chanty, "Lake Huron's Rockbound Shore."