I tried to silence the river. Loud and unruly, it refused. I moved stones methodically. Then March storms dragged winter’s snowmelt through the landscape. The river swelled, first freezing me in place, then thawing what had long been buried.
The river ran unstoppable—a wild unraveling, a surreal awakening, a journey back to the untamed landscape of the self.

In her follow-up collection ACREAGE, environmental artist Stephanie Garon weaves her visually-arresting, nature-leaning poetry around a slightly surreal narrative about installing art in a river deep in the Vermont woods. Nature often fiercely guards her secrets, but fortunately Garon saw fit to impart a few.