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john montague - the water carrier lyrics

twice daily i carried water from the spring
morning before leaving for school, and evening;
balanced as a fulcrum between two buckets
a bramble rough path ran the river
where one stepped carefully across slime+topped stones
with corners abraded as bleakly white as bones
at the widening pool (for washing and cattle)
minute fish fl!ckered as one dipped
circling to fill, with rust+tinged water
the second or enamеl bucket was for spring water
which, after racing through a rusty mеadow
came bubbling in a broken drain+pipe
corroded wafer thin with rust
it ran so pure and cold, it fell
like manacles of ice on the wrists
one stood until the bucket brimmed
inhaling the musty smell of unpicked berries
that heavy greenness fostered by water
recovering the scene, i had hoped to stylize it
like the portrait of an egyptian water+carrier:
yet halt, entranced by slight but memoried life
i sometimes come to take the water there
not as return or refuge, but some pure thing
some living source, half+imagined and half real
pulses in the fictive water that i feel

- john montague lyrics

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