the ocean always dreamed blue dreams

they came in the night and stole my beauty
ah, they took my beauty
with careless hands
my insides shiny globules of fat
sliding through their
insouciant fingers
my enlightenment
sliding through the wormhole
past eons
feeling the sun rising
like revenant salt crystals
caught in my throat

pale fragment of face
jostled in the multitude
amorphous love
a molecule too large
to fit into the
chastened tide pools
of my cells
six inches and I'm there
flailing
yet bound
with a searing hope
for life

Qimissung
January 2011