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Brendan's avatar

Your giants make me think of life at the sea-bottom which exists on whalefall, the bodies and bones of dead whales feeding ecosytems for centuries. How much we lose sheltering from giants

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Yardena Schwersky's avatar

Ohhh I hadn’t even considered that imagery but it’s so gorgeous. Definitely analogous to the poem.

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Claire Adderholt's avatar

Wonderful.

"I long to enter the current in which

they exist. Life and death

mingle in that river, turning over

one another in the flow."

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Yardena Schwersky's avatar

Thank you! It’s so lovely to revisit old work and find that it still feels meaningful.

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samuel forbes's avatar

Incredible. Decay has been very much on my mind lately. I could sit with that penultimate stanza for ages.

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Yardena Schwersky's avatar

I think it’s so interesting how decay begets new life. Everything is just constantly recycled. Definitely lots to think about.

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