A Pump in Africa

24 May 2012 | by Philip Gross

'A Pump in Africa' by Philip Gross

Here’s water, as the human eye
can’t see it. Maybe God’s
eye, or a fly’s,
                    the mirror-ball
of timelessness, the almost-insubstantial
lacewing’s gold eye, can.

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