QT: water

[Janet Paterson <Janet313@xxxxxxx>]

hi all

this is a gem i found at my favourite poetry web-site


janet

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Bodies of Water

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Glimmerings are what the soul=
's composed of.
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Heaney

Yes, but the body is made of water. That's
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0A fact. It freezes with fear
And boils with rage because it has its states.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0It blows off steam. It swells with pride.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0It sweats like a pipe,
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0But it is water.

Genetic pool, swamp of desires, its heart
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Melts at a beautiful face;
Turned to a puddle, it stands in the street and admires.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The body runs hot and cold and down
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0In soaked beds,
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Seeking its level.

There have been souls who drowned in pity, drowned
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0In sorrow. Just last week,
There was a glimmer of something out on the surface,
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Then it went under. When divers went in
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0They found gold teeth
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0And hundreds of miles of water.

Greg Williamson

New England Review
Volume 19, Number 3
Summer 1998
Copyright 1998 by Middlebury College Publications.

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