We love the sound because it promises all slates may be wiped clean—all echoed untruths be drowned out— as though an ocean passed a hand over us and sighed, I give to you my ceaseless change; forget your doubts
I was looking through my bookmarks for something else and saw this right after a pie crust recipe so reread it. So many resonances... The original "tohu", ("welter and waste and water") the flood in so many cultural narratives. The symbols of snakes and fire at the end here, the very element we wanted to cleanse is the past and the judgement. Wow.
Somehow it reminds me of my response to the Agamemnon trilogy when I first read that and saw how all the attempts to set things right were just the further unraveling of the original crime.
I was looking through my bookmarks for something else and saw this right after a pie crust recipe so reread it. So many resonances... The original "tohu", ("welter and waste and water") the flood in so many cultural narratives. The symbols of snakes and fire at the end here, the very element we wanted to cleanse is the past and the judgement. Wow.
yes!!!
Somehow it reminds me of my response to the Agamemnon trilogy when I first read that and saw how all the attempts to set things right were just the further unraveling of the original crime.
makes me want to pull my own volume of greek plays off the shelf..
This is so perfect. You really are a master of compression.
the luxury of the hexameter - so much room in each line!
Smooth and clean, just the way I like my descriptions of water.
Nice to read, and read aloud - inspiring.
there is no better compliment tbh
Rain is descended from the Flood and destined for the Throne.
A slick rain poem written with hard water.
Very nice.