The stag and the river

February 4, 2026 Paul Cudenec nature 0

[I read the piece here]

As I crossed the bridge the other day, I saw what I first took to be a branch, swept along in waters swollen by never-known weeks of Occitan rain.

But then I realised that I was looking at a pair of antlers borne by a stag.

There is no way for me to know if he fell into the river or chose to be there, but as he passed beneath me there was no fear in his eyes.

Swimming with the flow, rather than against it or across it, he held his head high and raced on towards a fate unknown.

About Paul Cudenec 313 Articles
Paul Cudenec is the author of 'The Anarchist Revelation'; 'Antibodies, Anarchangels & Other Essays'; 'The Stifled Soul of Humankind'; 'Forms of Freedom'; 'The Fakir of Florence'; 'Nature, Essence & Anarchy'; 'The Green One'; 'No Such Place as Asha'; 'Enemies of the Modern World'; 'Fascism Rebranded', 'The Withway'; 'The Great Racket'; 'Converging Against the Criminocrats'; 'Our Quest for Freedom'; 'Against the Dark Enslaving System' and 'The Global Gang Running Our World and Ruining Our Lives'. His work has been described as "mind-expanding and well-written" by Permaculture magazine.

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