This morning Cibawor River looks tired. Three days ago
Heavy rains in the upper reaches make this river a huge flood. Un-
tung has become the character of the mountain river, the flood that
happens fast. The clear water began
moaning in the morning, rising and rushing
half an hour later. Cibawor is like being flushed
from the upstream with a large, muddy puddle as well
carrying all sorts of garbage, from rubber sandals, traces
plastic bottles, banana stems, until mahogany.
Flood this time is great. After the water receded only
a few hours later, a lot of rubbish was stuck in the ran-
ting trees. On the steep cliffs appear rerum-
the pads and ferns were uprooted by the swift water. Din-
ding crushed rock. On a gentle slope,
the flood has closed the expanse of agricultural land with
mud, rocks, and sand. There is a tree cangkoh collapsed karena sloping ground where it is avalanched. The roots sticking up like hands that want to reach something to survive.
But the mbulu tree is still firmly there. Maybe
because he grew up in the rock soil and sheltered the rocks,
big Stone. So, even though the flood had touched the tip-
the tip of its branch hanging over the water, the tree
unmoved. Even the very old mbulu is still
still provide a sense of security for the emprit birds
nesting at the ends of hanging twigs
that. They joined swinging along with swaying twigs
when the wind blows. And they keep chasing,
cit, no matter the water below it has not completely receded
as before.
The calm under the mbulu tree was as if given a bo-
another bot by the arrival of an old angler. That man
has long made the shade of mbulu trees on the edge
Cibawor River is the most preferred place.
Fishing in that place is friends with kehe-
ningan, with a breeze, with a wave of twigs-ran-
ting that swings on the water or the birds squeak
emprit. And when the water is clear, shade mbulu tree
it also gives people the opportunity to see the shadow of la-
ngit as well as swallow birds. At the moment by-
The old angler feels that he is really present
and throbbing with the natural surroundings.