Boulders rounded by the ravages of time;
\nSinewy sluices weave down the valley floor.<\/p>\n
I taste the cold crystal waters
\nand cherish all I have.
\nThe diminishing of special places
\nis what scares me most right now.<\/p>\n
And the river brings me life,
\nbrings the sense of urgency
\nas it rises with the melting snow
\nand makes its way to the sea. <\/p>\n
But we could not let it reach that destination
\nwith our dams and other destruction;
\nwe’re the parasite feeding off this living thing
\nin the name of building a nation. <\/p>\n
But I’ll sit by this, the last living river
\nas if it’s everything I know,
\nand I’ll feel the peace within me
\ncontinue to grow and grow. <\/p>\n
For the river brings me life;
\nthe river makes it real.
\nThe river is the only thing
\nthat right now I want to feel. <\/p>\n
So I’ll taste those cold clear waters
\nAnd arouse within me the respect
\nfor what’s left that we haven’t ravaged,
\nand what I would expect<\/p>\n
is a disappearing resource
\na disappearing way of being
\nThe rivers no longer run free.
\nAnd down them, <\/p>\n
my freedom runs to the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boulders rounded by the ravages of time;
Sinewy sluices weave down the valley floor.<\/p>\n
I taste the cold crystal waters
and cherish all I have.
The diminishing of special places
is what scares me most right now.<\/p>\n
And the river brings me life,
brings the sense of urgency
as it rises with the melting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,3,13,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kisner-collection","category-nature","category-oceans","category-personal","category-poems","category-rivers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}