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 transgress.
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 indefatigueable urge
to wander down and down and down.
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