My lungs spread themselves
like sand, filled with hot air,
pulsing and pink, fluttering
like butterfly wings

the white ripples of wind
beat down on me,
the sun, yellow hot, and
smiling

my heart is too huge
for this earth, a clenched
fist, red and beating

against the waves that
crash against my skin
like the sky

I try to rise

and find

that I cannot