Harriet feels a burning sensation

It is late on
At Toby's beach barbecue
When Harriet's pretty
Summer dress
Catches fire.

Harriet reflects
That fire is not just molecules
Changing address;
Fire is molecules downsizing
In order to become
Upwardly mobile.

Fire is cool like that.

Even cooler
Is the adjacent ocean.

Harriet throws herself
Into the dark, raging surf.

Not unexpectedly,
She finds the fire
In her dress
Quenched.

This is good.
The fire might have become
Tiresome
If it had been allowed
To spread
To adjacent regions.

And often
The elemental energy
Of the ocean
Is best appreciated
In the absence of clothes.


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Surf on rocks
A photograph by Anne Mary Teichert

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Mermaid

We are water beings

Lent in the open ocean

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Very refreshing

In a deserted house,
A shower can be a
Very
Refreshing experience,
If there is no-one in it
And you yourself
Are miles away.

It raises questions.

Why is the shower running?
Why is there no-one in it?
Who is listening
To the steady splash
Of the water?

What is the agenda here?

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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

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Unusual cloud-form over Launceston

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