Patient: The Kiss by Anne Sexton
My latest free verse was posted a week ago with muted response.
I reread it, added text in ()
I know what I originally meant, but on review decided to better clarify.
Am used to writing song lyrics which are especially clarified in the choruses.
The salt in my blood
Talks to me in soft
Rhythmic syllables
Reminding me pulse on pulse
Of the long low low dream
(Rememberings of) sunning in the shallows
With flashes of silver
Deflecting the slow descent
Of sunlight
Settling below the warm
Wash of shorebound waves
(That far away memory
Stored in my cells)
Of diving in the deeps
Beyond coral crowns
Beyond the shelf
Guarding the coastline
That far eventual
Frontier
We crossed with tentative flips
Eons later
Where
We learned
Gasping
To catch
A breath
Out of water.
My latest free verse was posted a week ago with muted response.
I reread it, added text in ()
I know what I originally meant, but on review decided to better clarify.
Am used to writing song lyrics which are especially clarified in the choruses.
The salt in my blood
Talks to me in soft
Rhythmic syllables
Reminding me pulse on pulse
Of the long low low dream
(Rememberings of) sunning in the shallows
With flashes of silver
Deflecting the slow descent
Of sunlight
Settling below the warm
Wash of shorebound waves
(That far away memory
Stored in my cells)
Of diving in the deeps
Beyond coral crowns
Beyond the shelf
Guarding the coastline
That far eventual
Frontier
We crossed with tentative flips
Eons later
Where
We learned
Gasping
To catch
A breath
Out of water.