by Daphne Marlatt

wha – ? black wall of waters
rolling in
– ter urban
seawet wreckage after
missing, dead

          27,000 up to 28 —
          and climbing

nowhere now
inundate land rocked
evacuate from X –
posed radiant
no eye

           or iodine
           3000 times
           the safe

er, sievert language lost in
corporate face
saving hours exposed

          boots to no avail

control the news
4 hours worth of 1
sievert per —
x – ed out

let alone the sea
reactors leak
into the what the wa
– ter wheel we bound

this rim this local now
our living water bodies
reading in

by Daphne Marlatt

thunder rain for hours while
standing hills drink in and under
evanescent

sprinkler jets on the already
soused lawn in the still
of the morning after

systems on automatic

turn on the tap, brush
teeth in a drench of thought
elsewhere, always north or
west of us the rivers drying

by Daphne Marlatt

moon on wave
on moons wavering
water

                   moan a
                  move on

mooning the
singular

                   crescent

or full it

           shatters

ah, wave wavering waves
(s

by Daphne Marlatt

can you ham it, a serve a
slice of, wry it
gives your ears a breath, er
worrier
space it    oh hear it
however it

beep’s mind’s
melody    st’/ing    

     ing   ing   ing