Spotlight Destination - Johnny Be - The Water Child
from Icelandic Birch. The water is on the move again.
Beads of sweat depart my brow like so many rats abandoning ship. The Maldives, mirage or mecca? Turquoise
Unlike the Gulf Stream, I will soon travel in reverse from
ripples seemingly constructed by the great Michelangelo
north to south without the benefit of tides. Old questions
himself, stars as bright as lanterns, manta rays big as
remain unanswered. Do I trade youth and freedom for
Chinese kites and then the rain arrives. I am not sure if I
modern day convention? How robust is the stock and
am home free though of one thing I am certain, as sure
what is the end game? If migration feels as natural as
as Odin himself smiles down upon his leather clad dis-
breathing what will drowning feel like in the 22nd century?
ciples, as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the
My mouth is dry.
west and as sure as the fluid of time surrounds us, I am
water.
The Travellist | Issue 3 | July 2015 p45