Submerged Cathedral: after Debussy's ' La Cathedrale Engloutie' The blue green light in the knave of the submerged cathedral. How did it come to be under a reservoir of water? The drought of '77 dredged it to the surface clotted with mud and the surface clay tiled in hexagonal trapezoids of baked silt from the dregs of the waters. The submerged cathedral would hold Songs and poems. Blue light, turquoise light, blue-green light. The day would be blue every day, the night would be black every night and we would never see snow or rain anymore. Never see clear stars, they would always be constellations in geometric fragmentation and fractals as through dimpled glass. The bottoms of boats would be our birds of the air seaweed would be our plants, coral would be our trees. And we would never cry. How can I cry underwater? How would tears show? We must find an air lock of negative space. Up and under a bell, the l...