Underwater
In the years I lived underwater,
I feared crabs more than spiders.
Often I would wake to see
my shoes hermit away, little
shells left by where they were.
Now I live in a box of corners & shades.
My shoes remain stationary in sleep,
but sometimes grow webbed in the toe.
Where the division of light & darkness is
so distinct, it frightens me to worry the morning.
Everything here is surrounded by air.
It offers little resistance or buoyancy. I feel
like a pearl diver unable to come up.
My only hope is that
birds are the fish of heaven.
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