Two Poems

rip rap stabilization
concrete weirs and check dams
cross-vanes, rock vanes, and double wing deflectors
sediment transport and Q analysis
j-hook vanes

vegetated "coir logs" 




IDAHOENSIS


learn to love and hate...at once
a willow thicket
bicycling
hot UV sunlight
Idaho



summit,

at the nadir of the valley
hunters and fishers line your sedge banks
interpersed with willows


Pahsimeroi,

your cliff wall and bed were broken
down by humans, by analytical measurement
(into 4097-millimeter pebbles)
you tried to sweep us downstream, like dirt
lodged in crevices; we crimped along, three legged
with external bladders and strapped-on electronics

Wild Horse,

flowing wide from the mouth of Mustang and Hyndman
sweeping a perfect glacial valley
 clear of rockfall;
too much to move

Meridian,