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# Stones in a Stream
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/stones-in-a-stream/
- Published: 2022-09-21T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T16:23:06.000Z
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: essays, essay, 2022, publication, talking river review, prose poem, nature writing

"Stones in a Stream," *Talking River Review*, Issue 53 (Fall 2022): 125,

> The stones of my memory, and in my life, cannot be avoided any more than rain can avoid rivers. They take up space. They force action. No, they demand reaction. They do not interact, they impose. They do not relate, they occupy. If they breathed, I’d have no oxygen left.

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