Water Tells Stories
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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
The Water Dictionary
A mysterious word evokes both storm's fury and troubled men, culminating in unsettling, macabre echoes.
June 15, 2022
I’m a word which means storm
but also men with a problem.
I’m the mystery adjective, the wham of the fountain
released by one hoof-thud from Pegasus,
the diminuendo
of a waterfall in thinning rainforest,
the musical structure of splash, shimmer,
lapping and licks, the music of what happens
when you open up a hoard
of unclaimed body parts.
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PART OF A COLLECTIONWater Museum and 6 other poems
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, in whose work “the journey is the stepping stone to lyrical reflections on the human condition”. She is known for her poetic explorations of migration, and of science; also for her involvement in music, wildlife conservation, and Greece, ancient and modern. She is Trustee for conservation charity New Networks for Nature and has served on the board of the Zoological Society of London. In 2013 she joined King’s College London, where she is Professor of Poetry.