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American Life in Poetry

BY KWAME DAWS For many of us who live in land locked states, an encounter with the tumult and power of the sea can be a bracing encounter with nature. Here, in a poem I came across in a clever new anthology called Read Water, Annie Finch captures the humbling way that the sea asserts its forceful voice.

Edge, Atlantic, July

BY ANNIE FINCH

I picked my way nearer along the shocking rock shelf, hoping the spray would rise up to meet me, myself.

Seagulls roared louder and closer than anything planned; I looked out to see and forgot I could still see the land.

Lost in a foaming green crawl, I grew smaller than me; shrunk in a tidepool, I heaved, and I wondered. The sea

grew like monuments for me. Each wave and its coloring shadow, bereft, wild and laden with wrack, spoke for me and had no

need of my words anymore. I was open and glad at last, grateful like seaweed and glad, since I had

no place on the rocks but a voice, and the voice was the sea’s: not my own. Just the sea’s.

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-John Muir, Our National Parks BIG SKY BEATS

River Floatin’

BY JULIA BARTON

There’s nothing quite as refreshing as spending a Saturday afternoon floatin’ down a cold, Montana river after a week of hard work (or play) in the summer heat. Put your feet up, get a cold beverage in your hand, grab some friends and enjoy a day on the water with these chill songs to keep the mood light and the vibes high.

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