By: Michael McFalls and poet Nick Norwood

The words roll with the power of the river and the history they describe. McFalls turned one art form into another, a sculpture that stretches 73 yards along the top of a retaining wall between two of the three Eagle & Phenix riverfront mill buildings that were renovated into condominiums and apartments.The poem reads: “now that you are here/ amid crag and gleam/ mist-rise and vapor/ dark jade frothing/ into white lace/ here where the rains/ come to gargle/ spit jets of spray/ see herons creep/ smokestacks peer/ through high windows/ spirits sleep/ spool and spindle/ shaft and shackle/ tie-snake and eagle/ sit still/ as an old powerhouse/ and mind your moorings/ the river roaring” Location: The top of a retaining wall between two of the three Eagle & Phenix riverfront mill buildings.