(***WATER!)

“‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’ And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.”

2 Kings 2:21-22

“Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

WATER! walk outside and the billboards everywhere announcing

WATER! something pure something wholesome it rarely pours

WATER! from the sky see people outside with buckets

WATER! or with their mouths turned upward drinking it in

WATER! even lapping it from the puddles of sludge like wild animals

WATER! most of the time however it is necessary to purchase

WATER! not easy to tell the difference between real and counterfeit

WATER! hydrogen and oxygen atoms bonded to their

WATER! strange or virulent counterparts

WATER! advertisements on the radio promising to restore youth

WATER! trying to say that what you thirst for might be

WATER! within reach plunge a finger into the mud

WATER! breaking the sheen over the top touch the slime

WATER! raise it to your mouth it tastes of salt

AnnaLeah Lacoss