River of Words - Salt Lake City, UT - Fountains on Waymarking.com

This interesting water fountain in the Gallivan Utah Center is a combination of a water feature and poetry display. This water feature is over 100 feet long, winding east and west from near Main Street. All along is running water, with areas of dripping water, areas of small falls and greenery throughout. The water feature was designed by Stephen Goldsmith, Landmark Design, and EDA. Along the top of the wall runs a poem by Mark Strand. The poem is as follows:

"Visions of the end may secretly seduce
our thoughts like water sinking
into water, air drifting into air;
clouds may form, when least expected,
darkening the glass of self,
canceling resemblances to what we are.
Even here, while summer sunlight
falling through the golden
folds of afternoon
brightens up the air, we mark
our progress by how much
we leave behind. And yet,
this vanishing is burnished
by a slow melodious light,
as if our passage here
were beautiful because
no turning back is possible.
It is our knowledge of the end
that speaks for us, that has us weave,
as slowly as we can, an elegy
to all our walks. It is our way
of bending to the world’s will
and giving thanks."
~Mark Strand

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