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The many shapes of water

January 24th, 2007 by Nadja

E’s post Being a Fish reminds me that the very same Danish poet - Pia Tafdrup - published an amazing collection of poems in 1998 called Dronningeporten.

It is devided into nine sections - all named after the different shapes of water:

  1. The Drop
  2. The Lake
  3. The River
  4. The Well
  5. The Sea
  6. The Liquids of Life
  7. The Bath
  8. The Rain
  9. The Rainbow

Personally I might add…

  • Snow
  • Icicles (for me those are closely connected with vodka (small water) after having visited my parents many a cold winter, when they were stationed at the Danish Embassy in Moscow)
  • Ice, Icecubes and Icebergs (and tips of the icebergs)
  • Eau de Vie
  • Oceans
  • Puddles
  • Waterfalls
  • Mountainlakes
  • And the streams of consciouness running through the garden hose when one let’s the mind wander while gardening…

4 Responses to “The many shapes of water”

  1. on 24 Jan 2007 at 11:12 pm   levende

    Steam.
    as in the perspectives of the invention of the steam engine (patented in 1769)
    as in the mind- as well as body-cleansing therapy of going to a Turkish bath
    as in the ethereal yet oh so real hot splashes coming out of the Icelandic underground
    as in steamy, lusty … ermm…well, imagine! ;-)
    as in endless rows of pots with soup in the kitchens of Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

  2. on 25 Jan 2007 at 7:38 am   Nadja

    Steamy, hot tea
    Spiderwebs sparkling with morning dew
    Tears of joy

    And one should never underestimate the thrill of jumping through a thin layer of ice on a lake, a swimmingpool or the ocean to refresh after a long, sweaty stay in a sauna…

  3. on 25 Jan 2007 at 11:55 am   levende

    Under-water volcano in hot tea, caused by slowly pouring milk into tea cup.
    The beauty!

    Now doesn’t this shed new light on the Danish expression “storm in a glass of water”? ;-)
    I can have my own little sub-aquatic volcano, like a temporary bonsai weather phenomenon in the safety of my own home!
    —
    And… yes indeed! The joy of jumping through a hole in the ice, preferably naked and very very hot from staying in a sauna.
    (at first I thought you meant involuntarily crashing through a layer of ice on a lake, and I was about to say that I prefer crashing thin layers of ice on puddles, like I did this morning)

  4. on 29 Jan 2007 at 8:59 pm   SHARE A BRAINWAVE » Blog Archive » Literally: The shape of water

    […] On the topic of the many shapes of water I remembered a couple of digital projects attempting to literally manipulate the shape of water. […]

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