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#brine
I taste the salt, tears dripping slowly down your skin, Let me hold you, insecure, a world that rises a within On the lips of a Brine, water thickened a wholly mine Laps a simple most elemental truth--communal wine, After a morning sin, what remains--binds us we cling Brined in the keeping, preserved immersed they sing, Endured in the altered, held over for another around, Moments don’t just pass thru you--full to fully found They soak in you, live in lines I still feel you all along After the surface in you dries the waves leave behind I see you swim in the ware as the waters in you grind O the endless of a sea, overwhelming, slips it in slow, Gently, soft in a seasoning over the waters down low, Linger, tasted, let my salt leave a mark on you a trace On the legs of destiny let me show you kiss your face
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Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM UTC
On the Lips of a Brine
neptune seated in the briney blue hear me i can't help but think of you as something on the way out salinity increasing water's quiet whisper, bursting to a shout no real attempts at ceasing what we know in time will come about here's to the future refugees here's to the dead sure to die here's to weather we knew once to the tears surely to be cried and one for the men and women in charge
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Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 12:42 PM UTC
Neptune
I Sleep ; I Slip In Doze, I Seep out into the Scenes ; In Potions Deep In Notions Cold and Preasuring I Fit and Knit my Crown I Coral I Knot and Concrete a Frown But though I Invite my Efforts My Thoughting is Leaks and Tearing * Over Whale but Underwater I Recover Nothing Reassuring Slowing to a Pale In Ocean Cold My Feedings are Slurring to a Drown My Motions ; Enwombed and Collected An Unfoetal, my Body Undertakes a Vulnerable Mould Above The Surface The Ship Blinks, on Fire And Gifts from the Broken Hold Sink to me It's all a Wink Directed at me A Humour But I am become Prepared Still For the Next Life I Discard, Decending Still A Treat Sunk Below A Monsterous Breakfast                                                  *note : as in, secreting saline, watery fluid
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 10:19 PM UTC
SlumberBrine [or The Whale]