#1021 - green green the river runs

 

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green green the river runs

Han style on the Main

green green the banks

mud the river runs

oak and aspen, sycamore, elder

ducks lift and idle, ship’s pace

we go slower still

cast soundings to the shore

green green the river runs

campers stopped for the evening

in by-the-river lot on the banks

the river it’s own rhythm run

brackish here there

take the wake

cliffs of granite, hills of pine

willows and fir

shadows, reflections

a level crossing

the above ground wires

they’re waving first light last light ashore

dawn dusk lovely in the unmisting

fishing for what may come

someone camps like a star in the treetops

rattle a train along

even so slowly

world passes too fast

green the banks

and the river runs

it lifts us just to look along

then lean out, crane up

no one’s higher than a cloud

though we can always try