Pearl Diving

🗝️‧₊˚༺ Found this as a google doc from earlier this year. Don't remember writing it Lol

I meet you once or twice a month
In the place where that 

Great black mouth takes bites of the shore.
The sky's soft breath pushes us
Down into the sand
Where the seafoam licks and spits
And ancient crabs sit like a pile of rocks,
Dreaming of one day climbing into the sun.

The mouth offers up some white coral. I reach out

And the night yawns wide. It reminds of all kinds of trouble,
Like salt smeared rough across a collarbone, or
A thumbnail splitting the skin of a plum.

The branch floats out and is swallowed. There.
A bony cradle rocking back and forth.
Shhh.

The tide inhales and holds it.
Please don’t leave without goodbye