In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationery Characters
The river beckons the lumberjacking beaver and spawning chinook salmon
to capture its currents, to countervail its flow. Befurred and befinned
they dance to its gurgling song but do not yield to the flow, living for
their time as dissenters, laboring at cross-purposes against currents
as frantically stationary characters in their water world - "there is
music that will dissolve your anchors, your sanctuaries, floating you
off your feet, fetching you away with itself... until it spills you into
a place whose dimensions make nonsense of your heretofore extraordinary
spatial intelligence." In the life and tides of the river, only the
reflection of the moon remains constant, bobbing along to its own
celestial tune. In this delightful essay from The Iowa Review, Amy Leach
captures the eternal rhythms of an ancient, aquatic serenade.
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