Excerpt from a poem written and told by legendary black & white nature photographer Steve Snyder. Photographed October 2013 at Silver Creek Nature Preserve, Picabo, Idaho. WATER By Steve Snyder After the raucous racket of rain on a tin porch'd roof settled out I went for a walk a word for word walk through this poem story song mix that named itself water ∞ JUST ∞ water But the word JUST'tice is grounded in the Beginning's BIG∞BEAT∞HEART∞START with harmony of evolutionary matter by Universal Law in space time Tail end of a stormy weather day quiets down for night an' under late spring early evening clouds a sun down shaded bluebird skips across high desert sage Five red wing black birds in squadron formation head up valley towards slanted drizzly veils of sky blue'ish light gray rain squalls sift'n out of the bottom of a drift'n purple'ish cloud From a distance a river roars a source a wild artery for life winds bring snow melt sounds loud an’ near far an’ soft water denominator of existence water earth’s blood water spawn'n sprout'n birth'n nourishing water ∞ JUST ∞ water In a boggy meadow a gangly pair of sand hill cranes lift off head'd down valley wings gulp'n air their deep guttural ratcheting primal'sarurous cry songs echoing from old growth cottonwoods caw-rot-ta caw-rot-ta caaw-rrrot-da A singular duck flies a tight bundle of measured harmony a sleek water'less dolphin of energy A tandem set of Canada geese wing into the gathering night one doing a barn yard goose honk the other doing a nasal'ly haa'wha'onk honk haa'wha'onk honk haaaa'waaan'onkkkk honk And in fade'd sunset twi'light glow between rapid’dy roars the river does silent flow a river of glass mirroring aspens willows and grass water crystal an' clear water clean an' cool water sparkel'n pure water lapped water sipped by tongue of earthly Life water ∞ JUST ∞ water
