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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

We are water beings

We are water beings
Living
On a water planet.

Listen:
Sometimes it rains.

Perhaps raindrops are angels
Training for a higher destiny:
A liquidity of light
In the empyrean.

Listen:
Sometimes streams flow.

Perhaps flowing streams are angels
Trying to take off:
Bounding bubbles
Aspiring upwards.

Listen:
Sometimes water stands still.

Perhaps standing water
Is a concentrated tincture
Of angels:
Cordial for the crestfallen.

It is difficult to know.

But it is easy to hope.

Hope is fluent:
It flows like water
And forms droplets
On that which is
Unnecessarily dry.

Listen well to the water;
Learn its fluidity of being.
Return to the experience
Of smooth,
Bubbling,
Lubricity,
And flow free.


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Water droplets on a grass leaf
Photograph by Mary Stebbins

Flowing stream in Autumn
Photograph by Mary Stebbins

The Deleware Water Gap in October
Photograph by Mary Stebbins

More of Mary Stebbins’ work can be found here and here.

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