Rio Grande
by Eric Glaser
Title
Rio Grande
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
"Rio Grande"
Sometimes I stand on the river bank
and feel the water take my pain,
allow my nostalgic brooding
a reprieve.
The water flows south,
constantly redrafting its story
which is my story,
rising and lowering with glimmering meanings—
here nations drown their stupid babbling,
bragging senators are mere geese droppings in the mud,
radicals and conservatives are stands of island grass,
and the water flows on,
cleansing, baptizing Muslims, Jews and Christians alike.
I yearn to move past these days of hate and racism.
That is why this Rio Grande,
these trees and sage bushes
the geese, horses, dogs and river stones
are so important to me—
with them
I go on altering my reptilian self,
reaching higher notes of being
on my trombone heart,
pulsing out into the universe, my music
according to the leaf’s music sheet,
working, with a vague indulgence toward a song
called
we the people.
-- Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande"
Image Capture: Spring 2017
Rio Grande
Costilla County / Conejos County
Colorado
United States
Copyright © Eric Glaser. All Rights Reserved.
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September 16th, 2018
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