Exploring Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water”, this article examines the way Carson erases the human through historiographical overwriting to present the possibility of reconceiving the nonhuman in order to engage with nonhumans in the context of the Anthropocene. This examination includes: the interplay of theological notions with representations of nature and nonhuman scales of time and space; the historical palimpsest of the pilgrimage becoming emancipatory from a certain kind of human history; and nature continually evading the speaker’s grasp, making up the subject who can interact with the nonhuman without eclipsing it.