On Solid and Liquid Grounds
On Solid and Liquid Grounds
By: Earl Schumacker
Strong winds comb the ocean curve
White threads of mist lift away
Our hearty crew sets out
To find a way off
Solid land and sand abandoned
We bob atop the vast consuming sea
On collapsing dawn and day
A taste of salt
A rise of heights
And crying blinding spray
Moved by rogue waves
Churns and takes us where they will
Falls like iron buildings dispersing beneath a solid liquid world
As monumental weights about us
Removed from boundaries observable
Departures have their ways as fortunes change
Elements of cause displaced with waves
Unannounced
Back to the body of water and related wilds proper
Melds there…. formless…. yet filling in an empty need to remain full
A landless majesty locked in an embrace stays
We struggle
But turned around by forces not our own
Fear grew on us like mold
Rusting our souls in place
Gills and fish splash back our sinking expectations
Told us of their truth
Not ours
We must depart
Their world for ours
Something solid but no less moving
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