Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup
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Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: Enigmatic, innovative, and playful, D. W. Baker’s “Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup” puzzles the classical in a most delightful manner. This set of experimental linked tanka welcomes its readers, perceivers.
Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup
I. Traversing
nightly departure
into the dreaming
water made of wave
forms oscillating in
to the body’s container
II. Floodwaters
WAVE
After the pole shift, the magnWAVES O
core-mantle decoupliWAVES OF RADI
displaced WAVES OF RADIATION WA
WAVES OF RADIATION WAVES OF R
III. In
interior castle
intentional halo
insulating field
interfaith geometry
interdimensional fluid
IV. Helios’s
Heaven’s sight pen
etrates earth’s page
ants of deception: be
ams focused by cons
cious magnifying lens
V. Cup
F I E L D
I N N E R
E N T R Y
L E R N A
D R Y A S