Ocean Graveyard

Out on the nightmare sea,
pitched and tossed by waves
and misrepresented mermaid’s octaves
ships approach the graveyard
of negligence, the locker of Davy Jones,
with its stash of pearls and gnarled bones
nullified, picked clean and white
by Neptune’s unleashed  parasites.
While gulls plane a sea breeze
on stiffly out-stretched wings,
you can’t move a muscle from your boketto,
entranced by the south-westerly’s falsetto.

Kim M. Russell, 2018

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Underwater graveyard image found on Pinterest

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