Water

Water
a realm
a thing and a place

Air is all around us

ground always below

Water is not everywhere

It collects
and where it has collected in Ocean
it is immense
immense in surface
immense in depth and volume

Dense, yet yielding neither sky nor ground

Sky is a realm
but invisible
transparent

Ground is a surface
primarily
only perceptible as a surface
its extent below intuited
never felt or seen

Water is both surface and realm

It resists our entrance

It is foreign
the realm of dynamics
with mass

It is also a place we can go

to look at it from its edge
from above
from on its surface

We can see into it sometimes

mostly it reflects the air
a reflection of
the accumulated invisibility
of the air
 Water

It reflects
but we can see into it

It has density
but we can enter it
with difficulty

We can visit
but cannot stay

It is in us
and we came from it

We perceive it
as boundless
vast
deserted
yet filled
with abundance

It has outlasted
any other feature
of the world
but it is not
stable

It draws us off into lists

that multiply and diverge
yet it is one thing
any fragment of which
needs no more than contact
with another
to be re-absorbed
into a seamless whole

A Sipapu

– a place of emergence –

The Place of Emergence

Antonio Dias 01.08.10