Water is Company
Self flies from broken branch, hands shaking. Wind whips lake into frothing…
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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
Water Tells Stories
A singular current carries the sacred, the perilous, and the ancient world's stories.
June 15, 2022
I am your melted snowman, drops
from a baby’s bath, the first rain
of the monsoon, a sacred draught
from Mother Ganges, the Ford of Brahmaputra
where pilgrims keep an eye out
for the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag.
I am water from the moon, water pressure
you don’t want to mess with, moisture
round the unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb.
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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.