- Give it Time
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet is free. “To hell with restraint,” it says. “I have got to be going.” It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become little pieces. [End Page 74]
Wendell Berry has contributed ten poems to our magazine over the last half-dozen years. He was presented the National Humanities Medal in 2011 in recognition for his outstanding career as a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He farms on the Kentucky River near Port Royal, Kentucky.