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Xiaolangdi Dam #1, Yellow River, Henan Province, China 2011: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Love that lasts a minute like a filter
on a faucet, love that is always like headlights in the glistening dark, heed
the pen’s screech. Do not read what is written. In time
it too shall become incoherent but for the time being it is good
just to tamper with it and be off, lest someone see you. And when this veil
of twisted creeper is parted, and the listing tundra is revealed
behind it, say why you had come to say it: the divorce. The no reason, as
the plane dives up into the sky and is lost. All that one had so carefully polished
and preserved, arranged in rows, boasted modestly to the neighbors about,
is going and there is nothing, repeat nothing, to take its place.
on a faucet, love that is always like headlights in the glistening dark, heed
the pen’s screech. Do not read what is written. In time
it too shall become incoherent but for the time being it is good
just to tamper with it and be off, lest someone see you. And when this veil
of twisted creeper is parted, and the listing tundra is revealed
behind it, say why you had come to say it: the divorce. The no reason, as
the plane dives up into the sky and is lost. All that one had so carefully polished
and preserved, arranged in rows, boasted modestly to the neighbors about,
is going and there is nothing, repeat nothing, to take its place.
John Ashbery: from Flow Chart, 1991
Pivot Irrigation #11, High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA 2011: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Greenhouses, Almira Peninsula, Spain 2010: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Dryland Farming #2, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain 2010: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Dryland Farming #24, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain 2010: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Pivot Irrigation / Suburb, South of Yuma, Arizona, USA 2011: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Dryland Farming #24, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain 2010: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Pivot Irrigation / Suburb, South of Yuma, Arizona, USA 2011: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Rice Terraces #2, Western Yunnan Province, China 2012: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
VeronaWalk, Naples, Florida, USA 2012: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
VeronaWalk, Naples, Florida, USA 2012: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Thjorsá River #1, Iceland 2012: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)