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GEO-BESTIARY: 19 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SAT ON A LOG FALLEN OVER A RIVER AND HEARD
Last Line: IN A DEEP POOL I SAW THE TRACES OF LAST NIGHT'S MOON.
Subject(s): RIVERS;

I sat on a log fallen over a river and heard
that like people each stretch had a different voice
varying with the current, the nature
of its bed and banks, logjams, boulders,
alder or cedar branches, low-slung
and sweeping the current, the hush of eddies.
In a deep pool I saw the traces of last night's moon.



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