poetic pause :: the sea

i am Poseidon's daughter. 
at night, i lie on the beach and tuck the ocean in around me. my body, makes an angel footprint in the sand. my hair, long limbed strands of seaweed, spread out beneath the waves holds host to the creatures of the night and of the sea. my daughters, they weave in and out of the waves, interlocking limbs, tumbling flipped fins, sounding off rocks and crushed sea foam.

i am Poseidon's daughter. 

the sea is my groom. i swim deep under the waves with lungs that hold fast the hurting breath of oxygen. down amongst the dark and the deep. hollowed out caverns where eels show me their underbellies and sharks no longer hunt. my feet push together, puttering my submarined body slowly through the icy currents. through the krill. through streamed shades to the home of the starry hung moon of the sea. 

i am Poseidon's daughter.
in the morning light i rise from my bed and throw back the covers of the waves. i comb my gnarled locks, stiff with sea salted grime, i comb them out with rocks of prickled paired shells, shaking the hiding sand in the crevease of my suit. my feet leave no marks in the sand, as i hop from rock to boulder over the green tide and the shadows of the submerged below. walking across water dancing in the air. i am Poseidon's daughter. 

nature in the home series with Lou from LittleGreenShed.

   XXOO