Author K. S. Lubinksi takes a lot of comfort from his relationship with the river. It has helped him find a level of internal peace that was missing in his younger years. In Things that Flow, Lubinksi braids strands of life and work on rivers into poems and essays intended to pass his perspectives and values down to his children and future generations.

A river ecologist, philosopher, paratrooper, combat veteran, and diver, Lubinski's experiences span a wide and diverse landscape of nature and its human occupants. His works share word images of silently watching a deer attempting a...