vi: an old salt
From "Mountain Retreats", out now on Isobar Press
it all starts with water water on comets water on a Jovian moon and the plop of Bashō’s frog
it all starts with water trickling into cracks capillary veins lubricant through rocks the dynamics of fluid
it all starts with water saline drips and rehydration heat relentless haloclastic evaporation two Hs and an O
splitting
it all ends with salt lenses intensify build and grow pushing the world apart the clarity of crystal
it ends with salt a thin white line a seasoned man with a salt and pepper beard it ends with me