Writing Water: The Curious Behaviour of W

[...]it is the verbs that get us wet: 'whirl' 'whirl', twice, for such is the intensity of whirling, the repetition almost an echo of the 'pines' on the right-hand side of the line (the leftand right sides of the lines are showing parallel behaviour); 'splash', 'hurl', 'cover', a little water in the first verb, a little more in the second, and the submerging in the last one, replicating the wave's behaviour as it pulls us in and rides over our bodies. Water It was a Maine lobster town- each morning boatloads of hands pushed offfor granite quarries on the islands, and leftdozens of bleak white frame houses stuck like oyster shells on a hill of rock, and below us, the sea lapped the raw little match-stick mazes of a weir, where the fish for bait were trapped. [...]the water was too cold for us. [...]Lowell seems to be saying, just give them the residents of water, like if you were trying to write about a house,