Practical Water

Neap Tide

N E A P T I D E We showed our life a spring of steel Here is some knowledge brought with a merciless cry It was a season of feasts & vents past the season of suicides Night after night the same complaint like an ignorant wave tossing itself in helpless repetition Dawn after dawn headlights across water melting with stars in purple runnels of the bay The knowledge of unreachable signs of intervals uncrossable even in dreams of meaning transforming itself like a bride saw changing into was tide the backward edit of a tide Take it back we cried pouring a cup of staggering for the beautiful seer of this life 9 6 9 7 as in a play when libations are o‡ered to earth though that was never a requirement really & knowledge went back to the purple sea & merciful love stood by our side ...