Peggy Shumaker- Moving Water, Tucson

For some odd reason this piece really stuck out to me. The images that are conveyed here in this writing are different than i have experienced, and the idea of water, creating and destroying is an interesting thread. One of the lines i particularly like was, "Warm rain felt good on faces lifted to lick water from the sky. (p.19)" These words to me describes accurate visuals of these moments, she uses minimal description and yet conveys so much. I also like the line, "For a moment, we all wanted to be him, to be part of something so wet, so fast, so powerful, so much bigger than ourselves. (p.20)" It gathers power by separating each image. It is just a snapshot of a time that happened to a particular group of kids, but it stuck with me, as it did the writer. The water, and what it carried with it through the arroyo, and of course the boy who dared to be brave, and the image of him against the footbridge and the water holding him there.