{"id":7701,"date":"2013-08-06T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T23:11:07","slug":"the-milwaukee-river%e2%80%a6-summer%e2%80%a6-simple-muddy-pleasures%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7701","title":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee River\u2026 summer\u2026 simple, wet and muddy pleasures\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

the roar of water falling
\nproviding altered states.
\nwith senses filling
\nand flowing thoughtlessly
\nwithin the river\u00a0\u2014 with Sophia
\n \u2014 George Lottermoser<\/em><\/p>\n

Two Ways of Seeing a River<\/a><\/h3>\n

by Mark Twain (1835-1910)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!<\/p>\n

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Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph, 50 mm Summilux Asph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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