This morning I pulled a porpoise from the sea:
Without thinking I reached in,
plucked it out
With my small hands
And laid it on the pier.
Words of prey hunt
smaller words
and simple marks
like full stops, commas
and even the occasional
hyphen, if they happen
to catch one making a dash
for cover.
Shark
wrecked submarine
sub-aqua pirate
prehistoric ghost
animated by salt ocean
Into the green lagoon
I dive deeper until
The sandy bed is seen
And the green weeds tickle
The base of my shell and
My clawed, paddle feet
Paddle against the low waters of the waters.
I am a passenger in this body,
Within this shell,
Slipping […]
Snail,
In your spiral porcelain,
Sliding up the patio
Towards the double doors,
Heading for a meeting with
A perforation of ants
And a tuft of thirsty grass.
Snail, sliding slowly
Along the scent of water,
unthinking, you trust
that soon you will arrive.
Somehow old slopey paws
held our universe together:
the beat of her tail on the carpeted floor
called out the rhythm of the day.
First thing in the morning, mouth ajar,
tongue loose and ecstatic she waited
for her pre-breakfast run across sheep filled fields.
Twice daily […]
I find myself concerned,
Now that you’re buried beneath
Some bulbs at the bottom
Of the garden, that you are cold.
Ridiculous to think of you
Lying in the soil
As like yourself as yesterday
You lay upon my lap – exhausted
By the life you’d led; […]
Technically speaking a whale is a kind of spaceship
Except it flies through the sea
And never goes anywhere near the moon.
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