Wallowa Canyons - A Response Poem to Stafford's Climbing Along the River

Wallowa canyons

Rims and talus don't worry
about gravity.

Paleo-nomads once sheltered here

Trusting in genetic heritage.

These plateaus and mountains

Remember prairies.

Canyons are born and mature

With water and centuries.

My faith allows,

Mythos and ethos will merge.

And geo-topography

Creates the life it shelters.

. --R.Anderson. Wallowa, Oregon

In response to Stafford's Climbing Along the River
(See www.williamstafford.org/spoems/pages/alongtheriver.html)