Greenland westward shore

Homogenous silence, marked by blurs and flecks. The dimension so vast as to measure time: an aeon of girth. Elephant-skin wrinkles, emerging from the smooth ruffled surface of the massive depth. At the edge, soaking in a million pits, the mass opening, and revealing pitted subcutane, and then felted porous liquid tendrils. At the edge, catastrophes; frozen tumbling fragments, continuous collapsing. A minor sea collects in a shallow, accordioned shards of the sheet above intermixing anew. Then failing: the phase yields into river. Cascade: infinitesimally slow torrent, rime of shards above the fresh water discharging to the ocean.
This is a landmass in reverse: not the fundament eroded by the shore, but a proto-ocean above as an upper land, turning like a sun into the open water outside. The land here seems residue, effluent incident of the melt. Ocean salt receives the freshwater: bright fissues of current, overlapping arcs of wrinkled pressures from the tide slowly pulsing toward the land in countercurrent to the melting. Then the sea begins homogenous: miasma of swells, fissured by the transverse wind and second transverse of rebounding coastal current. Cumulus drifts hover above, clustering into a stratum that stands offshore, making a counter-coast, long dissolved fingers casting shadow on the rippled water.

Sun, Mar 8, 2009  Permanent link

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