July 19th
I sank below humus
down through bedrock
and the ancestors’ knowing bones
As easily as I traversed through stone and fossil
I rested at the bottom
soon enough becoming sediment set adrift by roiling waves
It was my turn
to settle on the shore
of this deep and fractious ocean
I sank below humus
down through bedrock
and the ancestors’ knowing bones
As easily as I traversed through stone and fossil
I rested at the bottom
soon enough becoming sediment set adrift by roiling waves
It was my turn
to settle on the shore
of this deep and fractious ocean