A DROWNING

“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.” - Benjamin Franklin

Magpie Tales has selected an image from the new installation in The Museum of Underwater Modern Art, Mexico by Jason de Caires Taylor. These striking installations explore the relationships between art, science and environment and while the photographs are amazing, it must be quite an experience to be able to see these sculptures in situ.

The given image prompted this response:

Drowning in the Bottom of a Glass

I’ll drink tonight,

And for an hour I’ll forget,

Sink into oblivion in an hour.

No more will moon shine

Piercingly into my empty room;

The garden scents, the flowers

For an hour I’ll forget...

I’ll drink alone tonight,

And for an hour my hand not empty,

Will be stroking the smoothness of my glass;

An hour of forgetfulness,

As songs and moonlit gardens

Sink, drown, all perish in my glass;

I will not care.

Swimming in Lethe’s cup

For only an hour’s indifference,

Sinking, falling, drowning,

In the sparkling liquid,

So I’ll not remember

How sunshine, songs and forest walks

Were made for two.

The cool glass,

Caresses, words unsaid yet understood,

Sharing a new world, blue skies,

The touch of your hand,

All lie forgotten for an hour,

All dead, drowned, dissolved

In the bottom of an empty glass...