Category Archives: river poems

The St. Lawrence River is huge and complicated

insulated

in the mountains across the river thunder grumbles somewhere threatens someone else with electric consequence specks on distant water bob unconcerned gulls glide on lazy updrafts watching for a pale green flash below a fat carp twists through waving weeds … Continue reading

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thinking about ed

we used to sit on our lawn chairs by the river Sunday afternoons with a beer or two and our binoculars in the shade of the old oak and speculate about how many topless babes we would spot sunning on … Continue reading

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aching ochre

Late afternoon cold yellow November sun glares hard down the river raking the tips of wavelets gilding the rich textured blues From the hilltop see the rush weed beds sublimely vivid ochre against golden blues here dark slashes of wooded … Continue reading

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