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“Mythopoetics,” pictured on the

previous page, evokes a future in
which “water” has vanished from the

world, leaving only archaeological

traces, or cyphers of its ways, in the
heaped remains, fragments and bare

bones, of an organic life that once
was. This is a future in which all that is
left, if any are left to see, are the

mysterious myths and poetics of a
long past era, when the ocean floor

was a vivid, fertile panoply of living
forces and wild waters. In the heaped

remains one sees the plea of
tomorrow’s children, who are calling

out for the new myths and poetics of
care for our environment that must

become our hope and saving grace.

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