Jess Gersony

INTRODUCTION TO HYDROSCAPES

What do you make

of an expanding? Of water

coming in and pushing the leaf

to grow? What do you make
of dehydrating?

An emptying, a lessening. 

I am grasping at the grace

of fluid. Grasping at
it’s carrying of me. 

I see the surface,

the underwater, 

and the sky.

I remember driving with my father
and sister to the spring
coming out of a cliff
to collect a few gallons for home.

Where is my first water? 

And will I recognize it?