In this workshop, we dove into the collective making of a poetic image of a body of water through language. Addressing the process by which bodies of water (Neimanis, 2017) are tamed by the word and concept of a river (Da Cunha, 2018), we began with a short performative introduction to the image of a river—as a word, as a concept, as a straightened frame—and an introduction to the dichotomy posed by the image of the Rhine by the German Romantic poet Adelheid von Stolterforth versus the technical rectification of the Rhine by the German engineer Johann Gottfried Tulla. In the workshop, we refracted, reflected, and composed together a concrete poem of our own ways of relating to and through the river beyond its margins.