Time Sample 1 is a collection of poetry and paintings from 1976 to 2016. Harbor Lights is a poem written in 1976. First published in an anthology by Green Valley Press. Later poetry and paintings portray a sense of continuity through the years. River has maintained an amazing creative path. In the Poetry Cafe "Self Portrait" both words and visual art merge to describe a 10 year period where the artist felt himself a "prisoner of poetry". The art and poetry share an "abstract"
quality in that they seek an essence from the focus of each piece. The time period is elusive in that it is not a chronology. It is simply a reference that the work is that of a long distance runner. Love in the form of a quest is balanced against self-discovery. Cryptic appraisal of myth is an occasional undertone along with ironic observations which jest at our mortal span. The idea of time as a moment or destiny popup as an unspoken question.