Sinuous City opening section

BEGINNING: Indoors to Outdoors

Shaped into drops, rainfall on porcelain

Foamed in the mouth with fluoride paste

Steeped and pressed, cupped and tasted

Steamed in soft towelling, warm against face

Berry-sheened bubbles, soaked into cotton,

Shot by jets, scrubbed with brushes, directed by blades

Lying in ribbons that snake the city

Rising and falling in salted waves

PAUSE IN RECORDING BEFORE SHIFT

Running at windows, racing in gutters

Bubbling in grass and rising in place

Repelled by rubber, deflected by nylon,

Shaped into drops that fall at pace.

Finding a level, pooling and puddling

In rivers and dykes and running, displaced.