Softly Over — Yazoo

May you not miss it just because it’s quiet.

— For the late-night listeners, the porch-sitters, and everyone learning to love what moves slowly. yazoo softly over

The Yazoo River doesn’t rush. It seeps, it curves, it floods the lowlands quietly. To say something moves “Yazoo softly over” is to describe a force that isn’t aggressive but is absolutely unstoppable. Like grief. Like the end of a long summer. Like the way a song you haven’t heard in ten years suddenly plays in a coffee shop, and for two minutes, you’re twenty years old again. May you not miss it just because it’s quiet