Jem

The River Returns To Its Place

Lake Havasu. Iphone6s iColorama app

The river returns to its place, the mountain to its place.

If we remain silent we conduct:

tongues, knotted rings, electricity, people

now on a riverbed strangely illuminated.

— Mario Boreo from poem Riverbed

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