Aqua exedit
(Water eats)
Aqua exedit,
Green tendrilous bites,
Holocausts offered by Orion .
Fangs were unseen in the dark
And no one knew until the moon,
On certain tides with certain light,
Screamed the wasted bones of Phlebas
And bloody Promethean chains.
Mountain to trench,
Aqua exedit.
That shudder came from the deep brain,
Before stone or fire or wheel or page.
That dawn brought murmur and wonder,
A flash of who and when and why.
Don’t tell.
But how ?
When no other knows of words,
You are alone in your scream.
The moon speaks.
Aqua exedit.
A few twos survived
To divide again.
Aqua exedit
And land dawns green.
Aqua exedit
And cell becomes man.
Alone, the tree on the island falls.
Aqua exedit.
The moon speaks.
Alone, the same island sound
Endlessly repeated across ocean soul,
Escapes to other worlds where water has dined and gone.
