Flow: Stephen Wisniewski
01. Writer
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Stephen Wisniewski
02. Theme
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Flow
03. MUSIC INSPIRATION
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Joe Henry:
The Gospel According to Water
04. WRITING
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When they finally told us that the water was poisonous, I was drinking coffee, pretending that it wasn’t really water. I was still pouring it into everyone and everything I love, trying my very best to not remember that I’d been doing that all along. I was trying my very best to not imagine how it might hurt them. I was trying my very best to not feel my blood move inside me and imagine it heavy and sluggish and sharp. I was trying my best to pretend that my blood wasn’t really water.
The blood of everyone and everything I love flows from the center outward to our fingertips, and to the ends of our tails, and to the city limits sign, and back in again. It flows from one of us to the other, and it flows through the ground, through a heavy metal spider web, through a column of spent trees, and into polypropylene containers tinted blue to let us know that it’s temporarily pure. It flows through spring-loaded release mechanisms and fixtures and money and money and back to the center and then outward, to everyone and everything that I love, and to the sky and to the ground. And eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it, heavy and sluggish and sharp.
I am haunted by waters.