Ali Scattergood, Energy in the Landscape series: Water, 2012.
Over Silent Water
--after e. e. cummings
Of course no
water is silent the sea’s
voice
especially
echoes the sun’s
hiss
rising from its
bath of steam
so why then
do
i feel such
loneliness ankle-deep
in the
ebb and flow
of this
not-silence
thundering
out to the horizon
why, gods of
earth
air and
water, would you create
this longing
in me to understand what my
ears can
hear what my mind cannot translate this
rhythm like the one that beats inside
my breast