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Literature

Riversong

And if you would follow me [down the river] through the twisted tree-tops, you might find things cast aside and forgotten; They cannot help you. Shrug off your coat of arrogance and sing with me the water-song your toes make slipping along my moss-covered stones, shining respite from the midsummer sun. Listen: I know the answers to the questions you seek. Close your eyes and I will sing to you, the bird song, the frog song, the forest song. I run my long tongue through trees and across lichen covered rocks, over smooth sand and black mussel shells. I speak words in a language so ancient that language itself has forgotten t