vi: an old salt

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it all starts with water
water on comets
water on a Jovian moon
and the plop
of Bashō’s frog

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it all starts with water
trickling into cracks
capillary veins
lubricant through rocks
the dynamics of fluid

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it all starts with water
saline drips and rehydration
heat relentless
haloclastic evaporation
two Hs and an O

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splitting

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it all ends with salt
lenses intensify
build and grow
pushing the world apart
the clarity of crystal

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it ends with salt
a thin white line
a seasoned man with
a salt and pepper beard
it ends with me