Stormy Sea Rain
a mossy phalanx of dinosaur backs
marched toward a shieldless rubble of shore.
commander winds lashed them,
inflicting an ephemeral coat of circular wounds
under the judgement of a pewter sky,
a weight so grey and heavy
any perspective of horizon drowned.
boats became splinters in a vicious, liquid skin.
froth boomeranged around piles
which creaked to stir an amorphous, feral cauldron.
clouds, those monster-bellied shatterers,
bared such cores of spasming gulls,
who suffered in obstreperous throes.
immaterial of kindness,
rain skydived to needle puddles.
it slapped sad windshields, and the funereal tarmac,
endless rain,
it died courageous, unlike the fled lies of mourning doves,
no loyalty in their olive-brine-branchless feet.
rain,
it fell impenitent, lies from the tales of old kings.
rain
it fell invidious, like the greed of pirates
who scratched to drown, chasing after golden winks;
or the smitten lust of blued sailors,
a mermaid's kiss fresh on their fleshless brows;
or the abysmal folly of so many naval jousts,
petty battles never to sate
the violent lust of water.
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