the sea

We cease.

Stories have a beginning and end-
the hero sets out to slay the snake
and carries its head home.
My story is
an ouroboros. It curls in on itself,
the beginning eating the end, my feet
treading the loop infinitely.

Every year,
I walk into the snake's mouth
and find another snake inside.

surface

depths

We are, therefore we think.

The storm rides through you.
Watch the clock: midnight, one,
two, three in the morning. The shapes
rattling in your chest
ooze out of your mouth
and onto the page in ink
dark enough to swallow you.

Voices of the Sea

We think, therefore we are.

There is value in leaving the mess
in life, that which straddles the lines-
an ouroboros of identity, a sideways-space.

I am contradiction; I exist
in parallel and serial, a sea of strings
woven into tapestry,
shouting with every voice I'm given.