Submerged Cathedral, After Debusy
Submerged
Cathedral, After Debusy:
Blue-green
light reflects off the polished wood
of the
knave in the sunken cathedral.
It
would hold songs and poems suspended in blue-grey, turquoise light.
The
day would be blue every day, the night black as a velvet opera cloak.
In
the submerged cathedral
we
would never see snow or rain anymore.
Never
see clear stars,
they
would always appear as constellations in fragmentation.
The
bottoms of boats would be our birds of the air
seaweed
our plants and coral our trees.
We
would never cry,
tears
cannot be seen underwater, how would they show?
We
find an air lock of negative space under a bell
in
the sunken cathedral under the sea.
Inside
the tenor bell tangy with iron, there may be a breath or two.
How
did we end up at the bottom of the sea, inside a bell,
breathing
the very last air that there is?
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