For Photo Thursday on Create a Connection, we're supposed to show summer water. Here is a photo from last summer, the small river that my husband played in while a child in Amherst,NY. Also, for Poetry Thursday, the completely and totally optional prompt is: River, so here is a poem I wrote about rivers.
Speak River
By Julie Zaccone Stiller
To speak river,
one must
be able to:
burble unselfconsciously,
keep up with the flow of conversation effortlessly,
part ways around obstructions unceasingly,
move one's point forward tirelessly,
and merge with the other participants finally,
finally in the sea.
To listen river,
one must
be able to:
open up and listen with more than one's ears.
I loved this and believe it! Well done!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteI loved the different ways of "speaking river".
ReplyDeleteI like how speaking river involves so many possibilities, so many tongues, but to listen river requires only one great discipline.
ReplyDeletePretty photo - I can smell the water, see the little bugs drifting just over the surface, hear the small turbulances along the shores. I took some photos of our river the other day.
ReplyDeleteAnd your poem was even more evocative. LOVED it.
exactly!
ReplyDeleteHi Julie,
ReplyDeleteI emailed you on Sunday about Try Day at CaC.
Did you get my emails?
~Melba
Digging this poem! I catch moments where I'm fluent in River and then there are stretches of time when I all know is swamp talk.
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