nature
Rivers, Going About It
Water always finds the way down. It has never once been in a hurry about it.
A river is the least stubborn thing in any landscape and, given time, the most powerful. It argues with nothing. It accepts every detour. Ten million years later, there is a canyon, and the mountain that made all the objections is sand somewhere in a delta.
This collection follows the whole career: white-water youth in the high country, confident green middle age between forests, and the slow braided grandeur of a river that has almost arrived.
People say they find river images calming, and the reason is probably in the grammar. A river is the landscape in present continuous — still going, and in no doubt of getting there.
