Inner Poseidon

Augustine Wasef

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By Augustine Wasef

Mythologies unearthed by changing tides

the salt more corrosive than Poseidon;

fighting memory, not mythology

Storms undress us-

our internal mythologies

don’t hold water

Like skin withdrawing from touch

weather stirs our baseline into

chromatic oblivion

do we still believe ourselves?

Storms expose our cracks

where two fragments meet

flooding the space between

Was the ocean

wine dark or the

sky ever clear?

And we choose to let the salt corrode, clutching

the tether until the fibrous mass

fails. Thread after threat.

Identity will diffuse subject-

-and object obsolete

like you and I

We will swim into a

cytoplasm, now knowing

the color of the ocean

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