For me rivers are the pulse-pumping backdrop of cameo moments of significance; what I do with them later is up for grabs ... — from The Little Salmon: Confessions at the Edge of the Time Zone by Joy Passanante

It's too easy not to notice how this water from this river runs an ancient course from some distant mountain, its rocky mouth wide open to rejuvenation rains

Here we sit, you and I, writers and poets, dipping toes into time, oblivious to the magic of anything other than this one single moment

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America via Idaho Writing Project https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/57fdf66a01f874ce56844e55fe4ed895/write-across-idaho/index.html Passanante essay: https://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20C%20Vol.%2016.2-18.1/Vol.%2018.0/Passanante.htm