I am landlocked
Held cracking against
The parched lips
Of an extinct sea
whose name was desire.
I lay myself moist
Before hard edges
Of unforgiving horizons
While the ancestral
Memories of tides
Pull against
Sadly crescent eyes
I chant my name
Ceaselessly
In a piercing mute cry
Lest I forget
In this shriveled bed
The strange sound
Of my lush singularity
Remembrance is
A slick coat
Easily slipped off
To skirt the shores
Of abundance
But impossible to mold
To the drying hands
Of time.
I am of two
Worlds flowing seamlessly
The quickening surf
Between shadows
Of was and not
I once danced
Like moonlight
Upon wet sand
And knew nothing
Of arbitrary lines
Called possession
Now I wither
Held static
To a form
Landlocked
And dying for want
Of the inconstant sea.
