{"id":4910,"date":"2012-05-31T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:42:15","slug":"passage-by-john-brehm-the-writers-almanac-with-garrison-keillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/passage-by-john-brehm-the-writers-almanac-with-garrison-keillor\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage by John Brehm | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passage by John Brehm | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Passage<\/h4>\n

by John Brehm<\/a><\/p>\n

In all the woods that day I was
the only living thing
fretful, exhausted, or unsure.
Giant fir and spruce and cedar trees
that had stood their ground
three hundred years
stretched in sunlight calmly
unimpressed by whatever
it was that held me
hunched and tense above the stream,
biting my nails, calculating all
my impossibilities.
Nor did the water pause
to reflect or enter into
my considerations.
It found its way
over and around a crowd
of rocks in easy flourishes,
in laughing evasions and
shifts in direction.
Nothing could slow it down for long.
It even made a little song
out of all the things
that got in its way,
a music against the hard edges
of whatever might interrupt its going. <\/p>\n

"Passage" by John Brehm, from Help is on the Way<\/em>. \u00a9 The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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