Font Iced Over, Melted
Font Iced Over, Melted
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The nozzle froze in the winter
The pipes stuck like flies in amber, suspended
All the ways the water flowed, busted wide where they could
Pressure escapes and water can't be stopped
Not for long. Not at the cosmic scale.
Mountains can't stop it
Walls can't stop it
Unchanneled, water consumes, remorseless.
The winter ran long.
The fountain, iced over, showed its first cracks in early spring.
A trickle, nothing more, spilled from its maw when the melting was done.
New pipes layered under and over the old.
Water spills forth in torrents that crash like waves.
The Koi, the Eel, the Whale, the Shark, the Manatee
The heads wail and the water erupts like lava from Vesuvius
Too much, maybe. The oceanic chimera cast in stone, now cast into the sea.
Amidst the deep dwelling,
Accompanied by crustacean and cephalapod and so on,
The fountain is full
The supply limitless, unfettered
One day alien to its alien place,
Soon smothered in corals, in sponges, tunneled through by the living
Soon after weathered by salty current.
Soon after disintegrated by time and the sea,
Minerals,
One with the water,
Eternal
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