Rafting the Arkansas With Karen

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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2008-03-02 11:06 PM

Rafting the Arkansas With Karen

I am walking through wet, shifting grass
but can not keep my
balance.
The air is damp and brisk.
An event has been scheduled in the park.
Paul comes to me, jovial, with a pair of shoes.  I
put them on and can walk again.

     It is mid-afternoon,
and we are "rafting" up a river through
the forest,
except that the "raft" I am lying on
is actually Karen's
body.
I feel her rippling beneath me,
supple and strong,
the
mountain wind whipping in my hair.
I should be terrified of
drowning,
but I am with her,
and I am not afraid.
I wonder'
how could we be doing this
without using any equipment?
  We talk for several hours,
laughing, sliding over boulders in the
stream.
     It is now late afternoon,
and time to start back down;
but we must
switch positions to raft downstream the other way.
I am afraid of drowning
but she says I will not sink.
She sits astride me and I float!
Her
weight on me
is full and reassuring,
and I am not afraid;
because I am with her.
We begin to glide down-stream
and ground upon a rock.
(well, it was my fault ... ...)
  After a good deal
of shoving and pushing,
I get us off the rock
and we are on our way again.
I swish my arms above my head,
picking up more speed,
... swish, ... swish ...
I feel the water, cold,
sliding underneath me,
the bracing mountain wind,
whipping in my hair.
Swish, ...
we are moving faster,
ever faster, now;
the wind whirling to a gale. ...
swish, ...
her body
in synchrony with mine.
Soon we are coasting at impossible speed.
and it seems
we are about to loose control.
  Then, as if nothing at all were happening,
we start talking about
whether the Park Service charges a fee for rafting--
or whether
rafting is really free? ...
Our group did get some instruction that
first time,
part of the CCB program, etc.

But I'm sure that, ordinarily,
there must have been a fee, or something ...

I am alone.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-03-03 10:30 AM

Dear Jaime, I felt like I was rafting too there with you, that was a wonderful reading/riding experience!

Totally awesome!

Love.
Margherita

LadyTom
Member

since 2008-02-29

Posts 353
LA, CA

2 posted 2008-03-03 10:47 AM

very good. Enjoyed.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2008-03-06 08:28 PM

Jaime,

one has to appreciate the dream of life
in order to appreciate life's dreams...

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2008-03-08 05:53 PM

Sounds like fun...until the alone...James

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