Yesterday's mixed up geometry resolved overnight. Temperatures in the low teens, and light snow, morphed a graceful curve out of jagged structures. If a special sensor could measure the swiftness of the currents, it could print out no better image than this of the faster-moving main channel. When water lingers in this cold, it freezes.
Beneath the surface, it may be that nothing has changed, despite the surface drama. Gravity pulls the water along this weaving course day and night. I have been struck anew by this obvious fact. The Ottauquechee just keeps on. As long as there is topography, gravity and water, the river will flow. The retreating glacier birthed this incarnation thousands of years ago, and thousands of years from now, barring earthquakes, volcanoes, permanent drought or nuclear destruction, this river will still be flowing between Mt. Tom and Mt. Peg.
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