... This place was shown to be very like the last lime. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, apiece was left over. The rest was mismanaged --Gertrude Stein, "A Frightful Release" (1914) Victorian, how you fall like water for gravity and anything else that pulls you down, claiming chaos--your natural state. In Steinese, a dam is a dam is a dam. But is it? Am I? You descend in angry fluvials--blind rapids determined to find entrance to pumice-grey stones devoid of all mortal sensations; the rocks you choose: of Gibraltar, of Ages, Stonehenge, any, any, any hobby-store quartz or common fossilized stone. Smashed-faced water sprites skim your surface then cling like white-knuckled vines suckered to your back--a tight eddying habit. You have no desire. You kick, bite, scratch, fight as you course through my fingers stretched wide as floodgates, enraged that I make no effort to catch you. I will not, I shall not. As minnows dart between my toes, I strip to midwaist and dive away, exposing more of myself than you can bear.
Breckinridge Mill Dam: Virginian Summer.
Rivera, R. Flowers
... This place was shown to be very like the last lime. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, apiece was left over. The rest was mismanaged --Gertrude Stein, "A Frightful Release" (1914) Victorian, how you fall like water for gravity and anything else that pulls you down, claiming chaos--your natural state. In Steinese, a dam is a dam is a dam. But is it? Am I? You descend in angry fluvials--blind rapids determined to find entrance to pumice-grey stones devoid of all mortal sensations; the rocks you choose: of Gibraltar, of Ages, Stonehenge, any, any, any hobby-store quartz or common fossilized stone. Smashed-faced water sprites skim your surface then cling like white-knuckled vines suckered to your back--a tight eddying habit. You have no desire. You kick, bite, scratch, fight as you course through my fingers stretched wide as floodgates, enraged that I make no effort to catch you. I will not, I shall not. As minnows dart between my toes, I strip to midwaist and dive away, exposing more of myself than you can bear.