In one part per trillion lies memory in water
splashing arms and legs 50 years ago
it remembers lovers turning on currents
swirling corealanus, paddle and bucket
in league with time, whales boom
through the blood of love, Salamis, Normandy
you, me and all who know water
leave our trace without value
we rise and fall but water remembers
without advantages in one part per trillion
splashing arms, deep dark trenches
layered down to when we were not