My
thoughts on watery places
Waterways
are deeply gouged into the bedrock of our bodies and we are corporeally coupled
to their course. Currents have carved
the epidermic earth, scarred the surface of our world and left traces of the
trauma. Arterial streams twist down
through the ground, tunnel through topography, squeezing between interstitial
hollows; they penetrate, permeate, invade and intervene. Tidal rivers respire, they shrivel and swell;
their contents perpetually influenced by the motions of the moon. Ultimately the peristaltic pathways of
flowing fluid are sucked to the sea where their loads are disposed and their contents
are freed.
Quotes
What
makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure
to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
(Hal
Boyle)
In
rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first
of that which comes; so with present time.
(Leonardo
da Vinci)
My
mind shattered
in thousands of fragments
wishes to spend
the whole day on a boat
drifting with the river stream
in thousands of fragments
wishes to spend
the whole day on a boat
drifting with the river stream
(Okamoto
Kanoko)
