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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Chapter 12: Energy in the Landscape: Water & Over Silent Water

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