It is still where the waters run deep where fathoms lie between surface and depths. You could drown without a trace. But the river is alive in the deep places wide awake. It is like watching a grizzly or snow leopard or Leviathan: you don’t dare move lest he notices and flees or turns and swallows you whole. Only the shallows are noisy with constant motion drowning all listening, speaking all day yet saying nothing. m. buchanan begin Oct 1/15, finished Feb 1/16 #deep #listen