Diane Hine - Nelumbo Pond lyrics

Every green surface shimmers in the botanic garden except the forever dry, inside-out umbrella shaped leaves of the Sacred Lotus. Raindrops bounce, glide and converge into pebble-shaped spheroids of water at leaf centres. The water's convex surface gathers light from all angles. Inside, fragments of debris are highlighted curios. A slight breeze riffles the leaves. The water pebbles quiver, smooth as semi-molten gla**. A moorhen paddles through stems under the green canopy. Water rolls in long-stemmed bowls like transparent mercury. An incoming duck swerves past a statue of a small boy riding a disgruntled swan and skids noisily, splashing cloudy pond water into the shining spheroids above. Pa**enger animalcules are abruptly uplifted to new high-rise apartments. From inside their gla**y cells, they have a distorted view of pale pink Lotus flowers on elegant stems, arching into bright circles of sky. In the flat, dim pond below, light arrived in parallel rays, filtered through matte-green leaves. Now, in this bizarrely bright curved space, they've nowhere to hide.