Tag Archives: ocean

why the ocean has an intimacy to it

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we know water and salt breathed weightless within turns & tidal rushes jealous of mermaids we long for what was laid down in blood memory that never knew words dream of flight as a casual push off of feet before we … Continue reading →

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whale fall (a long funeral)

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this floating largeness of mind when he fades he falls gently rocked by currents to rest on an unquiet floor murmuring news of flesh to fill these many mouths bloomed out of famine who swim to his feast of bones lasting … Continue reading →

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ocean

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

not sky but surface dances dips swells undersurface filtering light limit of swim and leap through thinness returning with gills gasping but some drink deep dive inside particulate salted thickness breathe down with them into blue gray cold warm current highways … Continue reading →

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