It Didn’t

Daily Note

Every day, a photograph, a poem. This picture from last summer is so fascinating to me. I imagine myself walking across the plateau and seeing ahead the crack, the crevice and wondering if it held water. For most of its history, for most of its length, it did not. But its formation with probable human witnesses was caused by many massive floods from Montana. After the glacial age, the waters receded and the coulees dried up. But the stories of the upper and lower coulee are fascinating geological history that shows we are just such a tiny part of earth’s story.

Poetry

It Didn’t

So, Imagine
Traversing the prairie
On foot or by horse
And Hoping
That crack
Scouring the prairie
From north to south
Holds water.

Sheri Edwards
08.22.23 234.365.23
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