the hills around it lie humped under their blankets black-green forests stare at their faces in its mirror grey around the temples deep wrinkles between the ground down hills winter squats over them but water still flows under ice easternmost west-flowing river cuts the shale and slate weathers out trilobites dusty grey casts of what…

Written On Water: Writings About the Allegheny River – Edited by Helen Ruggieri and Linda Underhill  – (with bonus CD!)
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-30-2 $19.95 About “Written on Water” Note: this book includes a bonus CD! The Allegheny River is the easternmost west flowing river in the United States and was a major thoroughfare for early settlers. This anthology looks at the Allegheny historically, and as both a recreation area…