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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
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.