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Leveling,  eddying,  streaming,  bubbling
 
Little protein?  Nothing.  Carve us in tenths,
more than nine water.  Each swim in our very own
pool.  Don’t know how  an illusion.  Very
pool holding water is water whirred with sand.  
Watery microbes between us and drowning.
 
trickling,  gurgling,  flooding, spouting
 
Blood, veins, and arteries that pipe?  Water.
Pipe breaks down to water.  Ask about skin?   
Water made visible by scales do double-duty
as lifeguards.  Scales – you guessed – are more water
than not.  Look up, down, in, out, around.
Vessel and vesseled owe colorless liquid
holds, shapes, flows, quenches, leeches, feeds
self-serving mouths. Every globally-warmed  
water-divided, water-connected, water-supported
continent that shifts.  Nations rise and fall not by oil
but H-little-2-add-O.  Myth says we shed traces
of gills and fins and our need to school and left.
Sure.  Like we can separate.  Water can leave,
plants and animals stay to dust Mars Two.    
 
streaming,  tumbling,  sluicing,  whirling
 
Pretend we crawled, crabbed, and-or floated
or allowed ourselves to wash onto land
did not stand on, was not more than half, water.   
No one waved to the waves that bore, cradled,
and rocked.  B’bye, Nurse Sea, B’bye Being
buoyed, hello, Iron Rock Cafe.  Away green,
away blue, we are vested in brown.  Ties gray.
Naturally, we dragged green to shore on sleighs
with fin-made limbs, forgot water made. Gave
no thanks for heart, cerebrum,  liver, lungs, sex.   
Liquid that insured we did not shrivel and char,
hide, arrogance, and all.  Never mind that holes
in the sky love to vaccuum.  These shells
we have come to oil and powder and shrink
and stretch and have cut to shape  possess
features only water could have known to imbue.
Elements have been ebbing and flowing
for Moon for all time. Find them in a sunfish.  
Elephant-flea-adder-orangutan-iguana-giraffe-
hummingbird-macaw-butterfly-eel.  Water
goes around comes around, imagine that.  
See litter, see poison.  Warning: Contamina–. . .
 
falling, leaping, seeping,  clogging, mucked-up, gone