King Of Kings

green girl
I found you pockmarked with rainwater,
gargantuan, gasping
spread out under saltfish
flopping at the bends of rivers like
slippery, pale driftwood
slick with seafoam
sick from tarred stone
cults of leeches underfoot
spellbound, chilled moans
resolute with uvula scales
southbound tides and no
fisherman’s tail

patient, unpaced lingerer of the undertow
I unclothed your algae-fondled forehead
kissed your aqua thighs til high tide
You thrust me undercurrent
“One must learn to drown before they dream to dive”

Lost count of the bubbles
rising from your eyelids
your dorsal spine
Rasping, gasping serpentine
Quivering underbelly
and blubber sublime
Naked, shivering freak
tentacles & leaking
between the fins
Siren songs splitting
like yellow fever twins
Your name a sand dollar
cut open and ravaged by gulls

You lovely myth
I am waterlogged, shore-torn
lusting with fissured legs and teeth
I am learning to swim with
open eyes burning
Much too alive for the sea.

Mermaid Season

Eartha Kitt Remixed

The Thrivers (2014)

~~Uncrossing Mix~~

shapeshifting, echo-fucking
curator of queer perreo

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