Unlike the gigantic mountains
and sprawling urban areas of
our universe, oceans have no
aquatic peripheral alternatives.

Rivers brooks canals even the
infant streams are lured to the
metropolis of water and just as
fish or lobsters they are snared.

Kahlil Gibran’s “Fear” shivers
on the shingle before entering
into the vast catchment of sea,
where ships are unable to exit.

There are no off-ramps, nor, any
overflows once one is committed
to Poseidon, and his perimeters.
But, some escape, by evaporation!