Charles River-2-Echo Lake & Milford

Musings at Echo Lake, the headwaters of the Charles River, & beyond

I wonder,
millennia ago, what was
the shape of this land? Who lived
and thrived here?

No lake. Instead
a confluence of earthly forces
in the form of many waters.

Flowing relentlessly
thru innumerable native communities—
I hear echoes of
fishers, canoers with their cargoes,
trappers, hunters, gatherers,
a great parade along the river.

“Our lives are rivers
that go to empty into the death
that is life.”

*Quote is from Ernesto Cardenal, Coplas on the Death of [Thomas] Merton

Photos of Charles River, Echo Lake-Milford region, spring 2011

photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography

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