river of murmurs
into this river I go up to my eyes
and here I glimpse
my flowing
murmurs
centering circles
thus soul outflows
abandons body to release
steradian potential
electrical discharge
and thus it is
when I find myself in myself
self by self only I flow like a river
and my eyes see
broad plains far as the visible
to the world’s end I am all
eyes on the world’s surface flowing
current
steradian in a single second
of the speed of light
River of Murmurs → An Online Visual Mantra written & read by Martina Straková. From the poetry collection Postcards from Invisible Places (Ars Poetica Publishing House, Bratislava, 2019). https://www.martistrak.sk/
Cinematographer Martin Mandzák
Composer Erik Rothenstein https://erikrothenstein.com/en/home/
Voiceover recording & sound Jaroslav Rozsíval
Final sequence illustration Martina Straková
English translation John Minahane
