can our cosmos contain more water than it already does - what would happen ? would gravity hold ? would the generous caress of gravity be broken? 
would we sink , would we drown in deep space ? where would we slide in the milky way - nudged out of the critical crevice for life, that our solar system is precariously stitched within.

would the Sun abandon us - would Neptune scold us - would Pluto freeze us - would Mercury petrify us, or usher us to new terrains? would Venus refuse us - her parallel 1:1 relationship with earth; broken, would the Moon - le luna be able to haul the heft of wetness? would she still be our balance boat - remain the tug that tethers us here too ? would Jupiter give up their protective role, allowing us to be pulverised, pummelled by space dust ?


how much wetness can this world hold? 
does the weep of the world create a downhill slide into who knows what, 
into who knows where ? 

waters want out, want their tied tongues released - to run wild with ravish 
flickering tongued ones - shimmery scaled ones - the pushed, the shoved , the polluted
rise , rise , rise . 

haunting lies precisely in it’s refusal to stop

concrete is puny in the face of our force 
shunting, this moment - in - time through the yuga, the yoke of this ancient processual cycle on the back of wild swans , 
Cygnus there charting, championing everything that is brought into life - air, earth, water, fire
eager elements. 


patter patter 
pulse pulse 
piercing pressure 
below this, below this
you want it darker?

“white bone” ”& ”your eyes,” ”are now like” an”an owl’s eyes” though they seem more like” ”two black flowers _” “two black hollyhock” ”flowers” ”they are black flowery” ”craters” ( Notley 1996)   
your now equipped to experience what you need 
co sense with radical tenderness (Andreotti p… 2020)


the long dark 


haunting lies precisely in it’s refusal to stop













References - incomplete at present




Audio

Orland Bishop - list talks

Michael Mead from Pleasure as Power 2025

Dilip da Cunha 2019




Articles

Vanessa Andeotti

Hyrdo feminism -




Books

Francis Weller

Is a river alive - Robert Macfarlane

The Descent of Alette ( Alice Notley)