To be honest!
How was I to know
I would not drown and die ?
We would make it back to shore
Where they shipped sand from
My Gulf of Mexico homeland
To exclaim: this is a beach
Do you believe? picture the dark
blanket of water stretching
to all corners swallowing you
up to your middle and
for a moment
you think you've become
part of the sea. rolling waves
bring moonlight to you and you
see one suave shark 3 inches
taller, blonde and blue eyed
like a myth heard on tv
ricocheting silver fins
glimpse of knife blade teeth
He kisses you, brushes your breasts
Translucent in the night light
With his gill and coughs
To make you think of his immunity
And then he has his way you and him bob
Up and down holding on to the orange buoy
you think you are drowning
can't recall any capabilities
of swimming in water so deep
but feeling weightless stirs
a light-hearted, creamy grunt
and the cold-blooded fish finishes
what he was there for
his proud laugh bellows
all the way
to the tiny lantern houses across a sea
"I can't believe we did that"
Walking onto shore,
the life of your spine
Spills into him from your thighs
And he struts through time
An amphibiman. At first step,
"This lake never did see a meteor
Or glacier or earthquake
Yet it stands arsenic, mercury,
Bacteria and sand." Picture it.
What had I done?
