Amendment For the Elwha River Dam Removal What does it mean to free a river? How is the event recorded in a ledger an ocean might keep? Or an ocean current or a homebound sockeye or a cedar seedling? Though is it an event or a steadily pouring atonement? You can sit there in the fine warm sand of the freshly laid delta and feel it surging by: the heavily flowing gratitude. You can watch it finally slide into the sea, and sense the swirling relief as flow dives under wave wave curls over flow fresh water into salt salt into fresh the celebratory mixing and passing of stories. You can breathe the air flowing over this meeting of waters and feel it rush coolly past you into the darkening world like a kind of light.
Thanks to your poem, that flow of air and light now touches the other side of the world. Yes, I feel it here.
Rob, your poetry always leaves me breathless, and at times with goose bumps! Thank you.