AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

7. TELEOLOGY OF
Slow slowsion
Ongoing subtle catastrophe
Blue into blue
Foam furnace
of a well-loved waterfall.
Scent of loam and mushrooms.
Overhung, the trees fear leaving, not the fall
but the departure, the rending of thusness.
Here and there, fireflies remit their cavities.
Mist surpasses its colonnades,
grows lethargic at the gorge’s scalp.
Pores rule place.
Floodwater blisters, on its curves and the moon’s hollows, its brief skin.
Slipstream, go swiftly. Break the spell
of vision’s distance. Tunnels of angled
panes, leaf shatter, conduct the voices
diminishing to night.
Let rock petrify. White crucible,
forget your marbled forms.
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