Eternity.

Millen, The Tree That Shone, 2017

Yet soon enough, any river reminds us of others, and the logic of a new one is a revelation. The pools and runs we've already seen help us decode the holding water: the shallow riffle is a build-up for the cobbled channel where thick trout nymph with mirror flashes; the slack back channel with the leafy bottom is not just frog water but a faithful reservoir for the joyous brook beyond. An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Tom McGuane