July 15, 2019Poem

The sea is a reflector

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The sea is a reflector

Mirror me

In real time

Bending forward to follow

The swish of a flathead

A curious Yabby

Blindly waving

Lean in

Will you reach out

Do we touch

Will we meet

As the water consumes

Us both

Do we keep moving

In thrall to drowning

Wishing it would stop

Too late

In life to be a water baby

Salt my soul

It is in need of rinsing

Do I become you

As you become me

Swim together

Silverfish

Beneath the mirrored

Aspect

Even in shallows

Superficial dreamers

Barely ripple

The fragile

Surface tension

Until in belief

The swallow

Of amalgamation

Is complete

And totally submerged

We are drowned together

As one