Via Negativa » water ouzel http://www.vianegativa.us How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:07:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Great Divide http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/the-great-divide/ http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/the-great-divide/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:38:22 +0000 Dave Bonta http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3566 Continue reading →]]> for Bev

In our first river west
of the great divide
in that swift current
I remember the water ouzel
appearing & disappearing

the gay couple standing
outside their camper
who mimed its comic
curtsying on shore

the way my brother
described it walking
among the rounded
stones on the bottom
or flying underwater
wings like oars because
its feet were unwebbed

& after it surfaced
inaudible over the roar of rapids
I remember watching
its beak move & wondering
what that watery solitude
sounded like
from within.

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