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"timeless, " by Joe Davis (copyright 1999 Joe Davis)

timeless

the Earth is weeping for the moon

unfulfilled

her greatest sadness turns

untouched

her many waters running red

pouring out the river Nile

she fills her cups and bowls

by the passage

of some other gravity

and pulls new fruit from within the vine

as she sheds her tears

pools well up to kiss the lip of land

again

 

while I wait

I can only press my heart to make the wine


Mr. Davis, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (U.S.A.), writes,

I am fascinated with the idea that there is another kind of gravity; that by one sort of gravitational influence the moon pulls the "many waters" across the surface of the Earth, but also by the pull of some other, biological gravity. By the course and interval of each 27.3-day lunar cycle heavy metals too are pulled up from the Earth - metals, that insofar as the Earth itself is concerned, would be kept most suitably somewhere closer and denser and deep within. The polyporphyrin rings that make up hemoglobin in the blood of animals surrounds iron (Fe), copper (Cu) in the blood of insects, and magnesium (Mg) in plants (chlorophyll). I assume that the rising of this great river is far mightier than the Nile.

These are all, incidentally, photo-activated molecules that carry on a variety of operations but for practical purposes, all driven with the same wavelengths of light and these happen to be wavelengths that transmit best through seawater.


More poetry: Dr. Michael Abramson's poetry; "Menstrual Traveling Show," song cycle by Geneva Kachman
Essays: "If Men Could Menstruate," by Gloria Steinem; "Instead," by Ariel Meadow Stallings; "Menstrual Reflections," by Jessica Nathanson; "Terms of Endearment," movie review by Geneva Kachman; "Towards the Emergence of Menstruation," by Sibylle I. Preuschat
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