Poem: Restless

 

Restless

 

sapphire and gold of blush,

the ocean wallows

on sumptuous pillows

no human ever slept.

 

beauty devoured and uplifted,

amorphous and nude,

long before the gods 

made death a one-way door. 

petals of froth

trellis the absinthe that is the ocean, 

bristling to wane;

and the restless petals of foam,

they pulse in their white-green gardens,

wet of flame, lustful of arch-and-sink,

such swollen aches,

swaying to a heave of pendulums.

 

the ocean, its great Gaze,

amasses every fluid lens

swallowed and shaped

and waits with them all,

multi-restless-faceted,

as shipwrecked as a lover

who stares up at the deeps of the universe

searching for a trace of fiery kiss.

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7/10/24