The Fourth River is grateful for the NEA Big Read’s support for our Spring 2022 “HOME” issue.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Shifting Baseline theory– suddenly apathy has context; / you cannot mourn what was never potted / and sprouted / in your garden …
I am subsumed in a state of flow, / submerged in a fast river sluice, / waters course in laminar planes / caressing trunk and limbs…