tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post5317896775122324244..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): honeysucklegenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-56329551207505055412011-01-28T08:07:16.178-05:002011-01-28T08:07:16.178-05:00RIVERS/ROADS
Michael Crummey From: Arguments Wit...RIVERS/ROADS<br />Michael Crummey From: Arguments With Gravity. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, 1996.<br /><br />I thought I was following a track of freedom and for awhile it was Adrienne Rich <br /><br />Consider the earnestness of pavement <br />its dark elegant sheen after rain, <br />its insistence on leading you somewhere <br /> <br />A highway wants to own the landscape, <br />it sections prairie into neat squares <br />swallows mile after mile of countryside <br />to connect the dots of cities and towns,<br /> to make sense of things <br /> A river is less opinionated <br />less predictable <br />it never argues with gravity <br />its history is a series of delicate negotiations with <br />time and geography <br /><br />Wet your feet all you want <br />Hericlitus says, <br />it's never the river you remember; <br />a road repeats itself incessantly <br />obsessed with its own small truth,<br /> it wants you to believe in something particular <br /><br />The destination you have in mind when you set out <br />is nowhere you have ever been; <br />where you arrive finally depends on <br />how you get there, <br />by river or by roadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com