LIFE

I Got Caught Between the Quiet and the Storm

While contemplating the stream of life along the river’s edge

Rui Alves
Published in
6 min readApr 22, 2024

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The frontier between the river’s avalanche of white foam over the levee and the calm green landscape before it.
Photo by the author

My village sits in between two rivers. I’m a riverman. The water has always resonated with my heartstrings. They call on me. I’ve written many of my poems on the muddy banks near my grandparents’ home, where I grew up.

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Rui Alves
In Living Color

I'm a language teacher, linguist and published author (who joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.