For Poets Are Like Stinking Fish

Tis vain for present fame to wish--
Our persons first must be forgotten;
For poets are like stinking fish--
They never shine until they're rotten.
--McDonald Clarke (from "The Elixir of Moonshine")


Comanche Point from near Unkar Rapid (top)
Little Colorado River (middle)
inner gorge near Cremation Canyon (below)