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
Β
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 helmsmanβs 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
Β
Β Β Itβs lateβthe 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
laveerβmy fatherβs 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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