Dear Body of Water is a poetic water-harvesting project using both digital and mail-art participation to collectively address bodies of water as fellow beings on this Earth and to cultivate care for watersheds. Made possible through a collaboration between Gretchen Ernster Henderson, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University
Sacred site of glacial origin
Layers of water that never meet
The tranquility of your surface
The graveyard of your depth
A mirror of my own body on this earth
Your shape tracing the contours of a new life
Toddling under your canopy
A melancholy trail
Age celebrated in your virescent water
Your meromictic character
An echo of environmental grief
I wound around you
Carrying my light
Skimming rocks along your surface
Sinking to the ancient floor
Cold
Silent
Still