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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Cities Carried Downstream to Eddy and Rest 


Made special by that incorporate sheet
on which so much does occur, the river, far,

far upstream, surprises us with its beauty,
grace, and a delicateness which attracts

to its narrow banks other lives of equal delicacy
and grace—light, in late afternoon, warms

and can separate itself to dance upon the water
and shimmer in ways we cannot hope to possess.

We note the river's softened rocks and the grasses
rising between them, the stunning, broad-leafed plants

and weathered cedar roots, dragonflies feeding
on gnats, trout leaping—the indefatigable urge
      to wander down and down and down.




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