October 26, 2005

Call the Water

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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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.!

Posted by: rodney k. at October 26, 2005 8:52 AM

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