Months Before Resurrection

Months Before Resurrection

In the sea, I awoke,

wet, under the sun,

taken into time by

the lord of anxiety.

Grief and instability covered my skin

like the suction of an octopus’

tentacles. It held me, carried me down

below where the pressure is unbearable,

and strange fluorescent creatures thrive.

I landed on the sand-smoky floor, without

a spoonful of oxygen, murdered by an immutable force.

I died that day, chained to the nadir of my zodiac –

once a living woman, now chewed at by tiny mouths,

soon to fossilize in this wet, unsentimental grave.

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First published in “The Poetry Community” May 2015

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