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Between Waters I , Between Waters II- Paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown, watercolor on paper, acrylic on canvas, 2009)
INVOCATION: LAKE CHAMPLAIN
from stone sky mountains
these waters
run together here
into the long,
Almost-always
blue lake ringed
with russet rock, cool green islands
Lamoille
Winooski
Otter Creek
Missisquoi
are a few of the names
given to sacred waters
moving into this
strong confluence
and the long view
in all directions
as if trying to take in the entire way:
Saint Lawrence to Atlantic via cold Gaspe
here today, the hollow
Wind-borne sound
Of new and ancient waves
echoing calls of
ducks and geese and loon
scattered in arrival,
departure; migration
we might well choose now
to welcome the always
of eagle, heron,
osprey
returning to find the same
ever-changing place that we ourselves
behold and become
at the heart of these
pulsing, shimmering waters
this living inland sea.
-Kevin Macneil Brown
are a few of the names
given to sacred waters
moving into this
strong confluence
and the long view
in all directions
as if trying to take in the entire way:
Saint Lawrence to Atlantic via cold Gaspe
here today, the hollow
Wind-borne sound
Of new and ancient waves
echoing calls of
ducks and geese and loon
scattered in arrival,
departure; migration
we might well choose now
to welcome the always
of eagle, heron,
osprey
returning to find the same
ever-changing place that we ourselves
behold and become
at the heart of these
pulsing, shimmering waters
this living inland sea.
-Kevin Macneil Brown
July, 2009
from THE MALLEABLE JOURNEY
