Poem: Relive

 

Relive

 

i swim deeper,

till awkward layers and shelves

grab at my lying face.

colors flirt 

where conception fails.

 

tragedy

barnacles the hump of a downward whale.

quills of a tigerfish, fierce with passion, 

accost a manta ray who,

cloaked in whirlwinds of grunion, 

hovers judicious.

 

so many emotions lost

of bold and beautiful shape--

heroic, truthful, sexual--

shunned by venetian slits green and yellow,

or the solar coral-

diffracted chrysanthemum.

 

ripe of banishment,

dangerous with love songs,

this ocean teems with ghost-adored depths,

so many immortal ballads

where kraken roam in heartache.

 

dare i venture down, to sink,

and plunder the glints of treasures drizzled,

from a reckless youth

of sharp teeth?

 

 

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