SHARON CHU "JUMPING
WATER"
Copper with
circulating water play. Height: 14 in.
From the red gleam of copper,
Ysaut, Ydone, slight rustling of leaves, . . .
Breath that is stretched out beneath the world:
. . . Out of the brown leaf-brown colourless
bring the imperceptible cool. . . .Quiet this metal!
Let the manes put off their terror,
let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire.
(Chant for the Transmutation of Metals -- Ezra Pound)