Water’s Lubricious Edges

Water of jellyfish,

lacteal, sinuous water,

water of lubricious borders; glassy thickness—Deliquescence

in delectable contours. Water—sumptuous water

of involution, of languor

in placid densities. Water,

water silken and plumbeous in opacity, in weight—Mercurial;

water in suspense, slow water. The algal bloom

brilliant—In the paps of pleasure. The algae, the

bracing vapour of its peak;

—across the arched silence, across isthmuses

of basalt; the algae, its habitual rub,

its slippage. Light water, fish water; the aura, the agate,

its luminous border-breakings; Fire trailing the fleeing

elk—around the ceiba tree, around the shoal of fish; flame

pulsing;

lynx water, sargo water (The sudden jasper). Luminescence

of jellyfish.

—Edge open, lipped; aura of lubricious borders,

its smoothness rocking, its nesting efflorescence; amphibious,

labile—Water, water silken

with voltaic charge; expectant. Water in suspense, slow water—The

lascivious luminescence

in its oily crossing,

over faulted basalt. —The slither of opal through the sheen,

through the interior flame. — Water

of jellyfish.

Soft, lustrous water;

traceless water; dense,

mercurial

its steely whiteness, its dissolution in graphite surges,

in burnished gloss; furtive, smooth. —Living water

upwelling ventral over dorsal, capsized bronze sun enfolding

—crystalline zinc, spouting water. Water of jellyfish, tactile water

fusing itself

to the unctuous indigo blue, to its reverberant honeycomb. Amianthus, ulva water

The catfish in its silt

—sucking; in the nutritious essence, in its delicate nectar; the aureous

reservoir, a limbo, transparentizes it. Light water, aura within amber

—graceful, anointed luminance; the tiger, its high tide

below the brittle shadow. Boundary water, eel water licking

its profile,

its nocturnal migration

—In silk matrices; in the sage. —Water

between the hake. Gravid water (—The calm pleasure

tepid; its iridescence)—Water

its borders

—Its shifting smoothness, its enchantment

with what is nubile,

cadenced. Water,

silky water of involution, of languor

in placid densities. Water, water; Its caress

—Otter water, fish water. Water

of jellyfish,

lacteal, sinuous water; Water,

Agua de bordes lúbricos

Forrest Gander