MARCH 7, 2011 12:22PM

Hockanum River Blues

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I heard
the Hockanum
slapping time
 
 
 
flood 7 
 
 
brown water foam
breaking east
with song
 
 
flood 3 
 
 
 
red maples 
bent into 
cold melody

 
 
 
 flood 1 
 
 
past mill
brick's fogged
lament 
 
 
 
 
flood 18 
 
 
 
 
a remembrance 
raging downstream
defiant to —
 
 
 
 
flood 15 
 
 
 
 
 
seasons'
bitter truth
  revealed
 
 
 
flood 12 
 
 
 
  this time
 
 

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Go back to bed, that looks dangerous!
scanner
March 07, 2011 12:29 PM
Wow.. it is spring.
Stay safe and dry. LOVED the pictures anad rated with hugs
Linda Seccaspina
March 07, 2011 12:30 PM
pictures and verse equally stellar
Sarah Cavanaugh
March 07, 2011 01:28 PM
Beautiful writing and amazing pictures. R ~Marissa
Marissa Mullins
March 07, 2011 02:05 PM
Nice, nice, very nice.
Hells Bells
March 07, 2011 04:20 PM
Flowers may bloom bright
where floods once raged.
Surazeus
March 07, 2011 04:27 PM
makes me want to find higher land.
Blinddream
March 07, 2011 05:19 PM
makes me want to find higher land.
Blinddream
March 07, 2011 05:20 PM
May it all make it downstream within the banks. I loved this mix of image and verse.
Stacey Youdin
March 07, 2011 06:01 PM
beautiful images and words.

but my next thought is....uh oh.

give a yell if you need extra bucket power.
you must have wellies. I went out into it yesterday and my boots were sucked off my feet.
Foolish Monkey
March 07, 2011 06:05 PM
It's really not safe to come out yet, my friend.
Stay snug inside & listen with ear to tv
to channel 3...
as all our sins
are washed
away,

to make a clear fertile field for our new ones.

Damn little green things poking up to watch me today,
in a freakish snowstorm .
Sun was kinda out,too. Weird.
Mother Nature has Alzheimer's, man.
James M. Emmerling
March 07, 2011 06:16 PM
Looks ummm rather vicious Chuck.
I do hope it got no higher.
Do love the lines with the photos.
wonderfully done.
Mission
March 07, 2011 06:30 PM
Good morning, Chuck, and so nice to meet you, here on this one, but Oi! - such circumstances! But I'm hooked already - this collaboration with yourself is telling and intriguing - the juxta really works!
The Songbird
March 08, 2011 09:27 AM
seasons'
bitter truth
revealed


I loved this Chuck. Rivers are kinda my thing - so I was lost in those pictures for a moment...great escape...thanks
Heidi Herron
March 08, 2011 10:26 AM