"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--
"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--
Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.
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Preface ∙ 1
I. YOUNG MOUNTAINS Headwaters ∙ 11 Thunderbird Motel ∙ 18 Dostoyevsky’s Koan ∙ 28 Visitors ∙ 45 Seeds ∙ 61 Emissaries ∙ 73 Begin, O Small Boy, To Be Born ∙ 83 Windfall ∙ 92 Neighbors ∙ 109 First Fall ∙ 122 The River of Real Time ∙ 135
II. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS Bed Rest ∙ 145 The Creaturehood ∙ 156 Road to the Buffalo ∙ 171 Heathen ∙ 183 Black River, Bright Stars ∙ 194 Nine Months, Three Years Later ∙ 203 Three ∙ 215
III. THE NATURE OF WONDER High Water Rising ∙ 229 The Deadstream ∙ 241 Old Mission ∙ 256 Good Harbor ∙ 265 Parr Marks ∙ 273 Great-Grandmother ∙ 294 Home Psalm ∙ 299 A Thimbleful ∙ 306
I. YOUNG MOUNTAINS Headwaters ∙ 11 Thunderbird Motel ∙ 18 Dostoyevsky’s Koan ∙ 28 Visitors ∙ 45 Seeds ∙ 61 Emissaries ∙ 73 Begin, O Small Boy, To Be Born ∙ 83 Windfall ∙ 92 Neighbors ∙ 109 First Fall ∙ 122 The River of Real Time ∙ 135
II. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS Bed Rest ∙ 145 The Creaturehood ∙ 156 Road to the Buffalo ∙ 171 Heathen ∙ 183 Black River, Bright Stars ∙ 194 Nine Months, Three Years Later ∙ 203 Three ∙ 215
III. THE NATURE OF WONDER High Water Rising ∙ 229 The Deadstream ∙ 241 Old Mission ∙ 256 Good Harbor ∙ 265 Parr Marks ∙ 273 Great-Grandmother ∙ 294 Home Psalm ∙ 299 A Thimbleful ∙ 306
Notes ∙ 315 Acknowledgments ∙ 319
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