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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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BEATS River Floatin’ BY JULIA BARTON
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.” -John Muir, Our National Parks
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. 1. “Endless Summer” by Grizfolk 2. “That’s Life” by Still Woozy 3. “Sunroof ” by courtship. 4. “Puppy Llama” by Coast Modern 5. “Can I Kick It” by Logic ft. Juto 6. “Dirt Cheap” by Lime Cordiale 7. “Chapstick - Demo” by Hippo Campus 8. “My Vibe” by Mt. Joy 9. “Sunbleached Girl” by Shag Rock 10. “Something Good” by alt-J
