Aye!
Let them come…
those rude & angry points
of misplaced palaver,
let their tongue stones conjoin
to appreciate teeth.
(I only wish to love & die with the sea,
to garden in my coat shagreen.)
Subconscious breeze, blackened under
the blue-grey bullets, a shark or spark
of words with a sinking pirate
with eyes on the coast, in the crabgrass,
a salt-licked high on the skin of a mountain:
a view from the beaten cliff,
a siren call of crashing rocks
crushed in hope for melodious death.
Villages immolate,
brightly
in the distance,
no discernable shout
from the torching hum:
complaining greaves in tetanus steel
hung dead on tufts of fur
gathering flies
ignorant of oceans,
shipwrecks & sharks with names.
Excoriate breath, sharpness-
storms direct to swim & snake
the heart of webbing hydras,
the dark below will seize my lungs,
the cruel above will knell unknown.
How I have wished to hold these teeth…
how I have gnashed to gaze the abyssal eye…
aye!
Unbidden thoughts-
a love or lust in the oxygen crawl,
a featheredge keening shattered in spray
and the sunless wet
of lungs burning in the waves,
laughter drowned by a cry of ice
golden earth that presses flesh
pinioned mind from Sun & cliff,
no protection from my desire:
to drown inside this bite of brine…
let them come,
I hold my breath
with red-faced enmity,
deep in the dark
and admiring teeth.
I am on the plate
for a feast of love.
Did not know sharks are older than Saturn’s rings. Figures, they are rulers of their domain. This is an interesting piece like the underwater theme. I feel that you are bringing attention to the destruction of the oceans. At least that is what I am getting from this,
hello dearest poet I love the way you wove the rhythm with the words it sounded like an old pirate… sharks terrify me I have had nightmares of being lost at sea swimming among them but I guess I should fear the land sharks more great write 💕
The flow of this…pardon the pun…is amazing. There’s calm & destruction found in the depths of the ocean. Definitely will be returning to read this again