Ecopoesia

The Earth, a Drop of Water in the Void

Cecilia Vicuña

Sacrificial amniotic fluid, communion vessel.

To contaminate a stream is to contaminate all of them.

Sewage and watershed sooner or later will find each other.

Clean singing, sprinkling with holy water.

Mother of water, zigzag serpent.
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Love in its most ancient form is luba, thirst.

 

 

 

Vicuña, Cecilia. “The Earth, a Drop of Water in the Void.” Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. p. 108.




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