poem: "Dry" by Suzette Haden Elgin


	poem: "Dry" by Suzette Haden Elgin

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9-24-2008 12:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c6a534b0-1699-4ad1-962e-c84af2f59b15/17AAF95D-7DFC-4AE8-BA70-173F1E9FF438/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ozarque.livejournal.com/549769.html" href="http://ozarque.livejournal.com/549769.html" style="font-size: 11px;">ozarque.livejournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ozarque.livejournal.com/549769.html"><B>Dry</B><BR /><BR />On the day the seas turned solid, there was fog<BR />as thick as berry jam. When you breathed it in,<BR /><DIV>it choked you. It had tiny clutching fingers.</DIV><BR />It ran thick with invisible fishes down your throat.<BR />It ran thin with sticky strands down through your lungs.<BR /><DIV>You could only hope that your lungs were its last stop.</DIV><BR />No wave gave warning. There it was, spray as always,<BR />and then it was clotted cream, and then it was bread,<BR /><DIV>studded with tangled whales and squid and lobsters,</DIV><BR />all gone as dead as raisins and candied cherries.<BR />All the multitude of ocean creatures, all caught tight,<BR /><DIV>a multitude so numerous there was no way to mourn it all.</DIV><BR />There was no way life could go on, either; that was clear.<BR />Not with solid seas. It was the very explicit end of time.<BR /><DIV>It was a different end than we'd expected, but it would serve.</DIV><BR />And so we linked our hands and walked out side by side<BR />on the spongy top<BR />of the desert world.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/17AAF95D-7DFC-4AE8-BA70-173F1E9FF438/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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