Thursday 27 October 2022

deep water




it is deep water   it is shallow

 

language is a puddle

a clean white cloud condensed

dirty water reflecting sky

 

a swimming pool   the light all chopped up

the echoes   public fun   chlorine and piss

the shared privacy   the shower taken

 

the sea too   all that surface    the light dancing

the fetch   the crests   the troughs   and below

the continental shelf   rip tides and undercurrents    

the imagined sharks   the all too real shipwrecks   then

 

the melting icecaps   the far-off shores             distance          

 

the polar bear tiring   the muscle of life giving out   sinking slowly drifting down

into the mind’s dark telescope   silently as if the sound were turned off

yet leaving some residue of suffering in the empathetic ear   not quite heard

not quite a scream    not quite a prayer      not quite the word   

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