27 May 2009

Mermaid Exodus


She is blind and bare.
Stands on road brim and begs for breadcrumbs
Journeys through self acceptance and denunciation
Clinched handbags and locked windows pray that mercy whispers in her direction...
She is calamine lotion on the back of irritation
Her name is Remnant and Forgotten.
She is the result of persuasion and rejection.
Love and loss...
Deep sea diving
Kissin’ sea urchin on underwater mountain tops…
Holding breath on the exhale…
She descends to new heights
And hums lullabies to babies on the inside of shark bellies
She is woman and mother
And cold, and shaking
She is the back breaking pressure lurking behind salt water shadows and silence
Purges sunshine and breath on land dwellers…
Darkness for the steel at heart.
She gasps
And grasps at something like sanity...
His name is James she thinks.
She is mutiny in a blender, soaked bed sheets and sweaty creases…
Tonight is only fuel for her grand escape...
Tomorrow will be for rent...
And the day after that is only thought of with the hope that
Sea parting doesn’t take that long.

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