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Selachophilia

~from 2014
   







Aye!    
   
Let them come...  
those rude & angry points    
of misplaced palaver,    
let their tongue stones conjoin    
to appreciate teeth.    
   
(I only wish to love & die with the sea,    
to garden in my coat shagreen.)    
   
Subconscious breeze, blackened under    
the blue-grey bullets, like a shark    
of words with a silken pirate...    
   
an eye on the coast, in the crabgrass,    
a salt-licked high on the skin of a mountain:    
a view from the beaten cliff,    
a siren call of crashing rocks  
crushed in hope for melodious death.    
   
Villages immolate,    
brightly  
in the distance,  
no discernable shout    
from the torching hum:  
   
complaining greaves in tetanus steel    
hung dead on tufts of fur  
gathering flies    
ignorant of oceans,    
shipwrecks & sharks with names.    
   
Excoriate breath, sharpness-    
storms direct to swim & snake    
the heart of webbing hydras,  
    
the dark below will seize my lungs,    
the cruel above will knell unknown.    
   
How I have wished to hold these teeth...    
how I have gnashed to gaze the abyssal eye...  
   
aye!    
   
Unbidden thoughts-  
a love or lust in the oxygen crawl,    
a featheredge keening shattered in spray.    
smoking wet  
in the flame on the waves,    
   
laughter drowned by a cry of ice  
golden earth that presses flesh    
pinioned mind from Sun & cliff,    
   
no protection from my desire:    
   
to drown inside this bite of brine...    
   
let them come,    
I hold my breath    
with red-faced enmity,    
deep in the dark    
and admiring teeth.  
   
I am on the plate    
for a feast of love.  
   
   
 
Written by SonderNinja (BenjaminEC)
Published | Edited 15th Jul 2023
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