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Jul 2011
You confess your love like dropping a stone into the ocean.
She swallows it whole and greedy
rolls it about her mouth,
the open waves frill and spray in shudders
bashful, because she needs to taste all she can before it dips
below the surface.
and it dives,
fish or coral on its straight path? it doesn't give a ****
like you
like me, a barking a seagull over our rowboat
in after that stone
desperate after that stone
its slipping between my fingers,
through my hair
always just beyond, just beyond

over my shoulder the moon is a blurred marble
against the dull night of sea

and the farther I chase you,
the further I am from you ,
the quicker I remember I cannot swim.
[04-24-11]
[Salty]
Written by
Shayla V
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   Cecilia Rose
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