Around her lovely wrist winds a simple silver band, like two rivers meeting at a delta.
I read Rousseau and Diogenes and Thoreau, and my liberal arts education, as well as the education of living in a van, came together like two rivers meeting at a confluence and flowing together as one.
The poem — which was published in 1997 and moves through terrains as varied as the Northwestern highway 99, New York City, and Kathmandu, invoking Buddhas, telling old folk stories, explaining geo-history, tracing rivers, meeting talking animals — is structured, to some extent, like a Noh play.
The term "Aber" is associated with the 'pouring out' of a river, hence the description of the two rivers meeting and forming an estuary.
Ray and Lila become smugglers who drive across the frozen river for meetings with a sinister, gun-toting Québécois.
"The day of the wedding, I'll be making sure the tent is facing the right side of the river and meeting with the lighting people," Ms. Edmonds said, listing her responsibilities, but she didn't consider eloping.
Within Fulton, NY 3 intersects NY 48 on the west bank of the Oswego River before crossing the river and meeting NY 481 at the eastern bank.
The push and pull from sea to city, city to sea; fragmented lives and lifestyles, residual reminders that this was once a countryside hamlet on the edge of a river, a meeting point of off-key outsiderdom and the churning London machine.
The 8th Panzer Division turned southeast between the Drava and Sava rivers, and meeting almost no resistance, had reached Slatina by evening.
The 8th Panzer Division turned southeast between the Drava and Sava rivers, and meeting almost no resistance and with strong air support, reached the left flank of the 2nd Army at Slatina by evening, despite poor roads and bad weather.
