This poem was edited from the final version of Myths & Texts. Not published until 1986 in Left Out in the Rain, titled “Fording the Flooded Goldie River.” No variations between this and the published version. The Goldie River is a tributary of the Elwha, deep in the Olympic Wilderness.

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Introductory Remarks to “Changes”
“Squat in swamp shadows…”
“Moonlight in the pasture…”
“This morning, 31 July Crater Mountain 1952”
“Clamped to the log by the current…”
“A skin-bound bundle of clutchings…” 

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