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Daydreaming at the Beach

…just before I finally fall asleep

My body scatters the dark particles

Like a shoal dispersed in the wake of waves.

Sea gulls let go prehistoric shrieks,

Bursts of violet-grey. Past the horizon

I imagine dolphins and whales,

Sun splashing against skin

As they surface, curving behind my eyes.

When I released my body

From all its fears, made love

With freedom, such complete light passing

Through two bodies; a moment

Of suspension, before a wave leans

Into the next wave, descending back, a slight

Vertigo of gravity between us.

Your eyelids, when I touched them, turned

To pale moths of gold.

To envy gulls and sparrows,

Their gibberish, their simple lives.

Through my lashes, the sun, a straw hat,

Thrown dizzily into the sky.

I feel the soft, incomprehensible

Locution of the wind, the birds flying

Through my ribs.