Two poems I wrote like 5ever ago lol

These two are the very last poems I wrote before I went into my indefinite writers' block. When I get settled back home, I hope it goes away! Anyway, enjoy! These also appear elsewhere under my name, so if you steal them, I got timestamp receipts LOLΒ 



Β Siren in the Bath

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Soft archipelagos of blue
blouses, denim and black towels.
The white quartz-like skim of
diamond powder and suds.
Shampoo and soprano
hanging around her like steam.Β 
A helmsman’s deep sea laugh; an
anchor tattoo on his chestβ€”
bare, gleaming backs. The
red shoals of saltwater tongues
Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  gasping for air.




If the Moon

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Β  Β  It’s lateβ€”the bright blue-white
laugh of a cutlass smile floats
Β  Β  Β  Β  like jetsam overhead.

Mother said that the night and
the sea would cocoon me like this:Β  Β 
more blue if I played sailorβ€”

more blue than a bump under
a tight muslin cloth, or a wooden
sword sticking out of the sand

after dark.Β  Β  Β  More blue than she,
who loathed lighthouses and
laveerβ€”my father’s worn fishing

Β  Β  boat bobbing in the waves...
Her bitter voice still echoes like
Β  Β  Β  Β  oakum in my ears.


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