Call the Water

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Is it enough
to call the water
black to talk about
the swirls, the crack in
the floor of this Bay

That steams up
sleep evaporating
soaking into
a newspaper headline
till it has mighty heft

Is now a good time
to chalk it all up
this swirl and this crack
this slow-dripping heft

to some sort of
vague, tectonic displacement?

Some foamy kerning surge?

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One response to “Call the Water”

October 26, 2005

rodney k.

You had me at “foamy kerning surge.” 🙂
Loved those opening two lines–“call” kind of hangs there between meanings, like are you going to call to the water, or call it something, give it a name? And if you did call the water, what would you want to say to it?
Off to look up “kerning”–keep ’em coming, c.v.!

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