throwing darts

courtships through three phases

II.
throwing darts
growing starts
learning arts

living water
loving matter
living matter
living matters
flecting water

ripples rising
rounding rolling
quantumly a
​complex roiling
ripples dripping
rounding rising
sipping rousing

​beaming
she is

yes

III.
sipping lightly
rousing spiral
shaping special

housing spiral
leemos libros
recuerdos
agua viva
curativa

leading brothers
leading others
leading brewers
leaving queuers 
loving lusting
losing luster
loving lover

one another
al​together ​

let's together​ see

​before snails mate, they date

​they date, long and complex
courtships through three phases

the first phase, they touch each other
with their tentacles and
they get to know each other

if they like each other and have chemistry
​
they throw darts made of calcium
carbonate at each other

then in the last phase
they twirl in a spiral shape
and they basically make love, ya

excerpts from The Sound of the Wild Snail Eating 
by Elizabeth Tova Bailey