Tundra - Desert - Mirage
The red-throat trawled me to a shanghaied shore
then left me raw in split-sedated state.
A sense of morning meant the lamp lit late
and when I dream I taste a little gore,
but it was peaceful there, upon that shore.
And how I prayed it would disintegrate.
And for the waters to evaporate.
And for the dark to dredge the ocean floor.
And all then did. No one should be allowed
such icy fun: to hear whimpering whales
aware of demise, crushing coral, proud
no longer. But then the fisherman’s sails
at first glint of sun. The hawk circling back
to this, my tundra, that the desert fails.
Copyright © Phillip Garcia | Year Posted 2019
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