“Water and Stone” (Ottersongs)

From my Otterbiography Archives: painting of our favorite brook, by my High School bestie, Cathy Cooke

(Lyrics of a song I wrote when debating whether to continue onwards in academia toward PostDocs and tenure-track, or to take a break to pursue a passion for music composition and performance).

The solidness of flesh is just imagined
we’re more like water in a flowing stream:
channeled by a sluice of rock eroded
and flowing from a gentle hidden spring.