Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Gauntlet of Boulders

What, memory can a river have
that is not the plowing of its present course
which jumps, pushes, extends into itself
upward ever upward in sheets of thunder
that in blizzards return as mean

Melting snow charts the summer creek
liquid diamonds cut through the granite
white water tongue for the flings of rafters
the path to heaven for those who were

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