The Lake Isn’t a Life
July 3, 2008
but it understands
being forgotten,
has learned to remember itself —
slow heavy depths,
the overflow of night,
earth’s confidante.
Not a color either —
what we call blue, green
but a tone outside the spectrum —
liquefied light,
sky poured into furrows,
cold secret currents.
It’s stubborn —
won’t stop hammering the rocks,
stirring the land —
mottled dream residue,
the aftershock of rain,
my breath made molten.
by Lisken Van Pelt Dus
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Categories: Water
Lisken Van Pelt Dus
qarrtsiluni 
I love how the sound and shape of this poem suggest the back and forth motion of waves and tides like memory shifting with time.
Reminds me of Thoreau’s Walden Pond. I love how the title says everything. Beautiful self-contained piece of writing, like the lake itself.