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2/25/2021 7:53:15 AM

Jennifer Cahill
Posts: 13

A bottle slightly submerged in the Sea
has within its light glass a scrap of paper-

on which are the words
"Do you know me?"

"I am on other shores, perhaps
exactly opposite Yours."

The roasting orange-red
of the hovering sun colors the ripples-

like the wrinkles of a silk slip- a dusky effulsence of an evening.

The sun's deep searing sienna
seen through the glass is a slightly

undercooked bloody yolk, seeping
and spreading through the enveloping visceral
white-

the solitary thin cloud passing the Sun's
fire. The sunlight is the gleam on the vessel,

under a Mayan Sky..

flushed with their Belief..Faith...of an ocean
that covers the entire Earth; tranquil,

at peace for eons; before the Mayan "Heart of Sky" that drapes Earth's mottled tints,

creates the creatures- crawling, rising
to stand, walk on the newly born lands.

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Jennifer Cahill

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