West

Curl in your barnacled shell
Hug craggy shores
Coracle queen
Swathed in waves
Dowsed in salt spray
The mermaids are singing
Far out in night waters
And seals siren on the deep
Your heart unfurls in a weedy pool of longing
And desire sweeps her anemone fronds
Bled under the moon
And weeping
Ride ride your indigo tides
Dolphin arced
Dance mad with the flow
Downstream
Slippery water birth
Silver wriggling blue
Little fish
Webbed and gilled
Gasp into being