November 8th, 1999 | |||
At Night On The River by John Engels
Excerpt from: Big Water
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When night comes in, wary as a trout, ready in an instant to shrink back on the kernel of darkness from which it hatched I've thought it might be worth dying just to drown and be buried here. You need to stand to you knees in the Winooski at night all night in wait for the back flow of darkness, the river meantime
crushing waders onto skin, muscle, blood, bone. ~John Engels
John Engels has taught English Literature at St. Michaels's College in Winooski, Vermont for many years. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Homer Mitchell Place, Vivaldi in Early Fall, and Weather-Fear, for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is recognized as one of America's finest poets. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. |
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