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- Herausgeber: Stormcrow Books
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
poetry
Ours is a water world. Our planet's surface is 71% ocean, and we live our lives on islands in that great sea. Our planet should be called Ocean, not Earth. Our planet should be called Salt Water.
Salt water is mildly antiseptic and can be used to help clean and heal wounds. Salts and water are essential to our bodies' functioning. Taking a small amount of salt water can have health benefits, but drinking too much is dangerous. Drinking salt water will make you lose more water than you gain. Consume salt water slowly and carefully if you must.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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salt water
simon kewin
Ours is a water world. Our planet’s surface is 71% ocean, and we live our lives on islands in that great sea. Our planet should be called Ocean, not Earth. Our planet should be called Salt Water.
There is only one ocean, one sea. A lot of the time it is too big to see and we forget it is there. We invent lines in the water and like to imagine we are dividing the world into seas and oceans, but we are not. We live out the moments of our island existences, perhaps even trying to set some of them down in words, but all around us is that greater unknown, too vast to comprehend.
We come from water, and we go back to water. Life may have begun in the ocean around deep water vents. Our ancestors evolved in salt water. It is estimated that over three million ships have sunk to the bottom of the ocean since people took to using boats. It is unknown how many people have drowned in that time.
The human body is around 60% water, although it depends who you are. In newborns, it can be 75%. Our bodies use salt water to carry electrical signals that make our bodies work. We are water beings. When we cry, out of sadness or delight, we shed salt water.
Salt water plays a role in folklore and mythology. It can heal – or help to ward off curses, evil spirits and demons.
The water in our ocean may have come from comets. Further back, all elements other than hydrogen and helium come from the processes of nuclear fusion in stars. You, me, our planet with all its animals and plants, the salt and the water: it all comes from the stars.
Every kilogram of sea water contains about 35 grams of salt. There are also traces of many other elements, as well as dissolved organic materials and, these days, microplastics. Salt water plays a vital role in absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ocean provides up to 80% of the oxygen we breathe.
The freezing point of sea water decreases as the salt concentration increases. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon (and the sun) making the planet’s waters bulge.
Salt water is mildly antiseptic and can be used to help clean and heal wounds. Salts and water are essential to our bodies’ functioning. Taking a small amount of salt water can have health benefits, but drinking too much is dangerous. Drinking salt water will make you lose more water than you gain. Consume salt water slowly and carefully if you must.
the tide rises...
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Curled up asleep there
as seraphic as
the furled e in serene.
Crossed feet for
perfectly drawn serifs,
your soft body
a rune of tightly cuddled limbs
as you revert to
the bliss of the huddled womb.
A quiet quotation mark
at the start of a life’s long speech,
the hushed susurrus
of a slowly drawn breath
Table of Contents
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Walking the Himalaya
Unearthed
The Boy Who Climbed Trees
Blackberrying
Where The Water Rises
When We Were Giants
A Clock's First Tick
Coalmining
Counting All The Bricks In Manchester
Replanting The Great Caledonian Forest
Autumnal
In the Peak Forest
Midwinter's Day
Red Kite
A Buzzard, on Landing on Carrion
Safari Snaps
Standing Stones
The Botany Of The British Isles
Ephemeroptera
Crowhaunted
Sleeps Beneath The Streets
Dreadnought
Labbeastyrinth
Calliope On The Street Corner
Orpheus In The Underpass
Mid-Atlantic Depressions
Words Fail
The Bloody Coup
A Sudden Distance
A Bright Wind
Landmarks
Title Page
Cover
Start of Book
Copyright Page
