flagstone gutter

flagstone gutter, cut basalt teeth of glacial farces,
cubed ankles of mighty heaps,
incubator aquatic thrivings only hampered by man,
distant target lost at first sight,
sunk to the gritty old log bottoms where maidens are mud,
warriors never launched larded with obsidian,
slipped child on platform fissures,
pulled in by a big one, gusted by the columbia
furnace, laked up makeup facade of damned nation,
no like for you, thumbs down, or sideways wiggling,
wobbling a workers way providing so much,
buoyant, effortlessly powerful incarnate,
river of teemingness personified in drunk rapture,
life's teepee and fish peepee,
a glass showcase on the sunken trail of ancient woman,
dawny walking over salmon past sabertoothed everyscares,
flowing medium of reflection,
tip taut the sail for good play travelers,
entwine with klickitat hood river white salmon deschutes&
johnday to flush conversant tidings,
smolt signals via sturgeon bridges,
indecipherablely intend most vociferously,
i want to say mellifluous but i
won't
float no more pilgrim boats and the white river upstream
eats two, as told in the grainy pale light,
mottled by cliffs washed different by surges ever often,

8-29-12 Portland