Chimera
What cause did I provision for my own death
to be ordered & carried out? Which of my features
amounted to monstrosity? My prescience to forewarn your
Lycian forebears of cataclysmic storms & volcanic eruptions? (…)
human nature
Dolphin Bodies
Mindful of my sandy feet skimming the sea-foam
I still try tiptoeing
the silvery flicker that parts the waters because
unlike Christ’s canonized stroll upon the waves
my miracle
of wresting words loose from language
& setting their dolphin bodies forth
to swim into their unbound meanings
slides past
ensconced in a halo of mist
along with everything
every last pearlescent thing
that was lost to us
when we were emptied
& jettisoned into the sea
