I sense your strange soul rise and rest
Sighing in your sweetened respite
Oh rest I seek your silenced crest
Your secret in this soothing night
As the swell rocks our marine nest

Your soft music, mysterious score
Swoops me to a dear distant shore
Scene of your shinning sudden dance,
In your rising swaying cadence
The sapphire ocean, I sense.

I see the shape of your sore spine
Swerving like a delicate shell
Swinging siren at night, my line
Is light under my silent sight
And with my song your name I spell

But as the dream’s dome becomes dust
Destroyed by the sun of Isis
Oh under the dark sky I trust
I know that your soul is not just
That slumber’s metamorphosis.

Creature of the sea when sound
Asleep, a naiad said she found
You, human by day. a poet
In the sea, desire of sunset
Sings this silent secret to you.

January 15, 2015
University of California, Riverside