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.