The river knows all.
\nSwift or sluggish,
\nSwelled or shrunken.
\nIt is versed in the wisdom of the earth –
\nIn the song of the wind as it rustles the foliage,
\nIn the scraping of overlapped branches,
\nIn the crunch of trodden twigs,
\nIn the dance of flowers and the pungency of ripe and rotting fruit.
\nIt has babbled in the speckled light of evening sun through the trees.
\nIt has seen the storm and swelled to meet it.
\nIt has borne the snow, offered its surface to the winter wind, become a smooth sheet of ice,
\nWaiting for the embrace of spring sunshine
\nBefore cracking, ear-splitting and thunderous,
\nTo reclaim its form,
\nRegain its flow.
\nIts depths flavored with the salt of tears, with the rot of plant matter, with the cloying earthiness of mud, with fossil fragment and algal slime.
\nTread lightly on its banks;
\nPay respect to
\nWisdom eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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