Entering the San Juan below Montezuma Creek
No
preliminaries, I simply zip open this river,
unfasten
her rustling current to her bare muddied breast
of mute
sandstone, hissing silt.
My
fingers seek her swirling pulse.
She
parts green-trimmed skirts of Earth,
lies
down along cottonwoods
and
bids me enter the glistening flow,
to know
her naked urgency for gravity.
--Karla
Linn Merrifield
A seven-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had nearly 300 poems published. She has seven books to her credit, the newest of which are The Ice Decides: Poems of Antarctica (Finishing Line Press) and Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets among the 99%.
A seven-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had nearly 300 poems published. She has seven books to her credit, the newest of which are The Ice Decides: Poems of Antarctica (Finishing Line Press) and Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets among the 99%.
wish i'd been along. wish i'd written that line about zip open the river. sweet, karla!
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