There are some phrases that feel less like words and more like a state of mind. “Yazoo softly over” is one of them.
Yazoo Softly Over: A Meditation on Rain, Blues, and Letting Go 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. There are some phrases that feel less like
Let’s sit with that phrase for a minute: Softly over. It seeps, it curves, it floods the lowlands quietly
It’s the opposite of a crash. It’s a settling .
May you not miss it just because it’s quiet.