Water Fluency
Get ready you flows from mountain snows!
Get ready you host of high mountain reservoirs,
who stores last year’s melt into the golden leaves
who releases life-giving flows to trout over-wintering,
beneath the ice you Poudre Wild and Scenic!
At your mouth, out into the high plains, a Heritage Corridor
forges the old Union Colony into the newer Greeley/Ft. Collins,
who bears the work of the farming and the laboring peoples
who lifts a White Pelican along a bikeway throughout her flyway,
into the gathering communities of we the young Centennial state!
Greg Hobbs
Peterson Reservoir, Tributary to the Poudre Wild and Scenic River,
Flows into Poudre River National Heritage Corridor
Along the fence at Greeley’s Centennial Village Island Grove Park
The Poudre a working and singing river
Of soaring White Pelican
Of an onion farmer preparing to drip-irrigate a greening field
Kristin, Colorado Foundation for Water Education, welcomes the 2016 Water Fluency Leadership Class to a lunchtime BBQ
Nicole convenes the group on the grounds of the 1870 Union Colony
Mayor Tom Norton addresses
Learning and centering
Seaman Reservoir, upstream on the North Fork,
Readies to receive and deliver fresh-melt waters of the Great Divide.
Greg Hobbs 3/5/2016