osmosis: A gradual, often unconscious process of assimilation or absorption;
the spontaneous passage or diffusion of water or other solvents through a semipermeable membrane.
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The walker on the city street stops to gaze at the ocean. Tracing a finger over dark, frozen seas, scattered archipelagos, tropical lagoons. On a rusting lamppost, ocean dissolves into city.
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The walker walks on.
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Off scene/obscene* – sheets of cracking ice, flows of meltwater, shifting landforms. The slow dissolve of city into ocean.
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* “obscene” from classical Greek theatre meaning “off scene” or “off stage.” Ancient Greek theatre did not show violence on stage; instead, this action took place off stage, out of sight of the audience.
Now playing – Lumen Drones – ‘Dark Sea’ from Lumen Drones.
Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea 