/ He was hale as a whale and twice as strong, / And he sailed on the peaceful river," writes Hughes.
"I have been this tired before but I do not remember when and a ship drifts south along the coast toward the mouth of a river," writes Segovia, the simple conjunction telescoping time, from the narrator's siesta to the 16th-century colonisation of Peru.
"In my own experience, it's impossible to count the number of Timmy Ho coffee cups or lids I have seen or picked up along a highway, in a park, on a beach or along a river," wrote King.
His poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," written the summer after his graduation from high school in Cleveland, was published in The Crisis (1921) and brought him considerable attention.
"One of the United States' most important resources, the Colorado River provides drinking water for 36 million people from Denver to Los Angeles, supports a $26 billion recreation industry, and irrigates nearly 4 million acres of land that grow 15percentt of our nation's crops," Chris Williams, senior vice president of conservation at American Rivers, wrote in a blog released Thursday.
HIDDEN RIVER Written, produced and directed by Mercedes Garcia Guevara; in Spanish, with English subtitles; director of photography, Esteban Sapir; edited by Alejandro Brodersohn; music by Martin Bauer; art director, Mercedes Alfonsin.
SUZHOU RIVER Written and directed by Lou Ye; in Mandarin, with English subtitles; director of photography, Wang Yu; edited by Karl Riedl; music by Jorg Lemberg; production designer, Li Zhuoyi; produced by Nai An and Philippe Bober; released by Strand Releasing.
The river, he writes, swallowed them, too.
"I have been coming here since my parents brought me as a child," an anonymous river walker wrote.
"Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river," Charles Dickens wrote in Little Dorrit (1855-57).
De Troyes witnessed a similar scene more than three centuries ago: "They plunged resolutely into the river," he wrote, "which they found was up to their arm-pits, and had great difficulty in reaching shore pulling their swamped canoes.
