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BEING OF RIVERS FLOWING
Where blinding sundown breaks
into russet couches and bean bag chairs
scatter in the endless sky,
Always the sky,
awake, asleep,
in raucous disposition,
pit of night or streaking gray,
Deepest hue of Mountain Ute,
mud brown of cliff houses,
boundless blue of swirling streams
Fitting place for dinosaurs
roaming where an old sea’s
been lifted up
to cave-pocked rimrock
Towering mountain top
the hard way up
in cold wind
on talus rock
Dunes as on oceans,
valleys like bays,
pine tree canopies,
Eagles, woodrats,
porphyry,
being of rivers
flowing,
Colorado.
Greg Hobbs, Being Of Rivers Flowing, 90
(Colorado Mother of Rivers, Water Poems)
Colorado Foundation For Water Education 2005).