White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-05

expanding energy, and his thin and
incapable legs were now strong and
reliable. All along the valley every
thing was shooting recklessly up
out of the pregnant ground.
'sIt's a soft night. You can feel
the live wind come fresh out of the
woods and run softly over your face
and delicately under your dress and
around your body. And then you
are not tired and more, and you
seem more alive than you ever were
before. Next to the curiosity OF the
way the chickens crow in the morn
ing. like they thought it was time
for the day and God had forgot to
light up the sun and set 1t over
Cranesnest, and then they wait a
little while in quiet to give Him a
chance to remember before they
break out again; and suddenly when
they do the dark begins to run
down from the Pinnacle, slow, fast,
and then faster until the sun pops
up and takes the valley and all the
| chickens crow again third time
| bigger than ever as though they
had done the miracle-neXt to that
in this place is the understanding
quiet at the end of May and the
way it goes inside of you and makes
something happen to you and you
tremble with it. The way it is now.
1t is not the tremble Of seeing
snake swallowing a toad in the aft
ternoon. It's the tremble of being
born or released instead of de-
voured. 1t feels like the night were
trying to say something to you and
YOU can hear it speak. know what
it means even without the words.
reckon Rebekah heard it saying
wordless things to her when she lis
tened under the stars in the Holy
, Land and thought Of Isaac in far
country that she is woman and
> that love can reach over long way
, and touch her and take her even
to another place; and that the life
in. her will go on in new place far
from her fathers land.
ut begins the way corn comes
, up, the blades curled tight into a
( green gimlet boring it's way through
$ the ground. You can't see how such
f tiny blade can move away the
It dirt and climb out Of the place IL
Il was buried without breaking. Il
n YOU lust so much as touch it it goes
[. to green water and scum on your
J. fingers. But almost overnight the
q blades unwind in arched pairs from
k the stalk and when you hold the
f two points together they make the
figure Of a heart.
v docs Reuben feel the living
q thing in the woods when he is al
q day among the timber, and do the
4 sweet damp smells of the hollow
y and the intervals Of silence in thu
:. midst of hill sounds show things
!. inside of him he hadn't found there
# before? The way he looks up a
d me and the shine comes into hi
- eyes, like he had been away AM
y. had just got back and was happ,
y over it. Reuben's face keeps chang
ing like he took each thing an
=. placed it higher or lower than some
"a thing else. He looks at me over tn
70 head of the others when they dom
70 take up all there is in somethin
70 he or Daddy says, and he smiles a
r. me to say, You see all the color
as in a rainbow, not just the red
81 don't, though. Things have bee
ID happening so fast and so strang
e. can't get them all straight and
IN just sit out here in the night pos
in sessed by them and wonderin
X what's going to happen next. / coul
N nearly wish it might stay just tn
VS. way it is But it doesn't ever sta
he the way/it is. The night itself goe
- on. reckon from the movement {
%. the stars 1 ought to be back at tn
ar hOuse. If YOU could just gather u