Nathan Martin Poet I do not know?

My Sobriety

deep in the sea bleached white
 whale bones sing in thier chains.

 chamber music in the depths

 i heard them in the night
 lowering the stars as they sank
 moving heavily through their watery 
 hymnals.
 i swam in those dark waters and 
 kept on dreaming of their forms
 until blue became black and a
 saline solution filled my lungs

 under a cold sky the icy constellations
 spun round my magnetic head

 i drowned my angel in
 a bottle for need of words.

i drank in silence shades of green and 
brown to swallow aloud all the others

 until blue became white 
and blood became bone 

to numb in my icy marrow like
 jonah,  i prayed to be spat up on dry ground.

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