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Waterworld |
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The Last Big Secret
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| Copyright: |
Caroline Fox |
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Water - the first element we know, perhaps the first element all life knew
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Waterworld
If I slid, until my head was under the soothe of bathwater –
lay very still, I believed I could hear
the same burbled plumbing echo as you:
distant music percolating through
from another, waiting world.
My little amphibian, I imagined you
like a pearl to begin. For a while, a pulsing jelly-fish,
your bones building and building within you, like coral –
your lungs’ soft sponges ...
until the ultrasound submarine search
found you whole –
your tiny fibrillating heart,
screened under a KY slide.
I waved to you, windowed in
the secret aquarium of my belly
and thought I saw you
press your face and webby palms against its sides
and smile a bubbly smile at me, my merman,
weaving between umbilical sea fronds.
I was scared for you – delivered onto this
blue-green planet through broken waters –
so afraid of the air to your new lungs.
Caroline Fox
August 2003
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