the word is knowing / lost words / drown / in sounds that cannot / merge into meaning / the danger in / words of / melted water
the sound waves hunch / and crest / in empty air / strike madly on / the shore forever / churn spray / retreat to / breathe again
of water
the water / falls / in torrents / as if it were the only / force that mattered / sweeping / everything / from its path
dripping from

drops fall / into the swirling/ stream/ their sides dissolving /into each other/ each rolls off / a thin / oak branch.

ancient symbols
in water / breathe deep-- / understand / that there can be / no differences between / air and water / symbol / and symbolized
tiny particles empty atoms / thicken / into crowds / too trifling / to be constrained / sufficient / for shadows / under the sun
of merging rivers / merge into / distant nothings / so many instances / of the same time / leave undefined / origins / and destinations
realities

snow falls / thick in / urgent flurries / an individual only / from sky to ground / crystal edges / melt to / murky puddles


Follow us all: Amy/Anna, Sophie/Yuki, Kit/Richard, minor characters or sift through water leavings and river journeys.