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THE OKLAHOMA
REVIEW
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | Spring 2007 |
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Print version Janet Butler Death in the Mountains LeAnna Covalt A Few Days after Your Fiftieth Birthday Pagosa Springs Roger
Jones
Long Ago Dream of a Bad Love Affair Coming Attractions, 1960 Jason W. Selby Love in the Time of Colonialism Noel
Sloboda
Surfaces Cuts Uncruel Salesman of the Quarter tolbert ghosts laughter Anne Whitehouse Curses II |
Anne
Whitehouse
from Blessings
XI
The magical rocks of Hamilton Falls shine silvery even when dry because of the mica. Also mineral-laden schists, they are not like New York City rocks cropping up in big slabs, but small pebbles tumbled smooth and flat as coins in the cold rushing waters of Cobb Brook. In the heart of summer in the cleft of the forest I submerge in the pools at the top of the falls and the bottom. The pebbles lie still and gleaming through the mantle of clear water on the rocky, sandy bottom where I touch down, am released, rejuvenated. Later, dried and dressed, my feet in socks and sneakers hiking back on the trail, I can still feel the cold tingling in my soles, enlivening my being. |
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