- Vol. 10
- Chapter 06
Image by Sarah-Jane Crowson
Our Love For The Sea
Let us parse and analyse
our love for the sea:
-incessant trawling
-fish skeleton necklaces
dressing ourselves as gods
skin indicative of bath salts
-the death
counted in wave-beats
but we hear only roaring
and, after all
we close our eyes
-to the jellyfish fairies
ripping stars like wishes into the waves
-to the mother-of-pearl
tears sewn into nets
heartbroken tomb stones
and the summoning of light
-the squid’s inky law suit
(in the reefs
those little babies
killed by misquotation)
Our Love For The Sea
if we read the fine print
love is not a carousel
eternal clanking music
or icecream drips on pavement
love is that blue eye
world-about
waiting to be met