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Water On Pins

The water is impaled, but how did they stab it?
Each droplet poses like a pearl-headed pin;
Caissons hold the waves without, the space within;
And needles are the spheres our fingertips inhabit.

Pin cushions in action: nozzle, sprayer, shower head
Are issuer and issuee on either side of a grating
While history rushes out, primitive and elating,
From water carts’ pierced barrels at a flowerbed.

issuer and issuee – A play on two meanings of “to issue” : 1) to flow out (intransitive) and 2) to send out (transitive). An “issuer” is one who flows out; an “issuee” is one who is sent out. “Issuee” is a neologism modeled after such words as “employee” and “nominee” where the ending “-ee” designates a passive construction, i.e., one who is employed, one who has been nominated.