being mostly water

     






















        Deluge




Seas invade valleys
       invading seas
these isles once the peaks
        of the Pyrenees
wend across the continents
       their trees
 rooted in watery beds
       waving ever so slow
       as though
       in a surfaced breeze
Great highways
       become a crab's walk
Long tunnels
       in which long congers electrify
roofs of skyscrapers and towers
upon where sleeping sharks sweep by
inundated and fathomed
       in their pented bowers
Only the sea touches the sky
and it is fish not fowl that fly
As though unsinkable
the bottom of the sun
like the hull of a ship
       on a horizon
A veritable ark
embarked from its Himalayan shore
cargoing its very light
down the vast drown of the night
with the moon as anchor








                                   Gregory Corso
































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