Valence

EC Daley

 

Flesh & blood is all about survival.

Not so the inorganic:

it cleaves, slips,
………..folds;

rounded down,
……………..it tumbles
…………………….wherever gravity and currents
determine.

∞

Walk the beaches
of the hard North Atlantic,

you’ll begin to understand.

The finest grains of sand
are the most eroded.

∞

Beyond any human
………………construct of time

each becomes invisible,
elemental,

charged
…………with the capacity to form bonds.