By Gerald N., Ph.D. Callahan
The writer offers poems, essays, and private photos mementos from seven life-altering years of mountain climbing the Colorado Plateau.
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Right now that's the Colorado and its twisted tributaries. The fact that there are only two other people in this entire bar (a few short blocks from the glorious Green River) on the twentieth Page 12 of November suggests to me that the water needs of others, if not less than mine, at least are manifest only in fair-weather months. And second, when I was three years old I was scalded like a tomato by boiling water. A stupid accident, but it cost me near half my skin. There's still a thick scar about the size of a big plate of enchiladas and shaped a little like North America-with Nova Scotia nestled among my middle ribs and Florida flung across the top of my left thigh.
I hear them. And now I see them. A wedge of morning-gray geese coming in low over the barbed-wire fences to the north. Each with a wing in sunlight and a wing in darkness-hemi-lucent. Just ahead of the decoys the birds lift, turn, and begin a long circle. Canadas are miraculous in flight-heavy-bodied, full-winged, and a grace born of the north wind itself. Their laughter now is for me. Gina begins to flag. I work the call briefly, then stop, and quietly slide the safety off on the shotgun. The birds pull their wings into a full deep cup, drop their palmated feet, and fall, silent as stones, into the deceit of our decoys.
In 1956 I was ten. By the time I was thirteen or fourteen, Henry was dead. But in the few years between, nearly every Sunday, Mom and Dad got Henry from the hospital and brought him out to the house for dinner. Even after considering my mother's warnings, I thought Henry was one of the more interesting adult human beings I'd met-though not when my friends were around, of course. Henry often looked and smelled somewhat unusual, unusual for an adult male human anyway. I was uneasy about how my friends might react to that.