The ocean has skin

Words Nahum Gale ArtworkVinica Teng

you, my darling, are an eastern aphrodite / came to be from the seafoam, afar but you, my darling, hath not seen the sea / hence you know not that the ocean has skin

your hair, it trickles / like the creek that feeds the river and gives way to the great blue it ebbs, it flows / it curves like a stream around the valley of your chest / your breasts, a peak, unto their own sand dune skin, sculpting biblical truths / and dear, the hair lay fallen like autumn leaves but all lay praise to the garden of earthly delights / the chasm of life / eyes unto your holy vagina dream dearly of this untouched meadow / where all creeks, peaks, sand and leaves are birthed sunflower of pubis fields / awaken clitoris root / give way, your genitalia utopia

soil of the flesh / sunk deep, young mother life on earth evolves / as do you

alas, cometh the day for purity fucked away / you fear not the serpents in your tree you fear not the ripe apples / nor the cum (the poison) yet to penetrate you fear only the sin shedding ye adolescent flower patch / negating birds –and bees, violently pollenating / you lay awake observing your honeycomb tower

lay mother, naked as you came / for a while, at least, with your head against waves younger than the 6am sun / you cradle the hill that stirs earthquakes unto the land you know not the toll / you know not the weight / for mother, atlas knew not of your shoulders and you recall the night to come / a lonely island amongst a sea salt tub blood spoiled the waters / your weeps dripping into the seas my darling, your soil was cold / and nothing grew again / afloat, ‘twas your placenta

and I still sit awake at night / moonlight on my dick for my body be no temple / but I speak to the ocean with the sway of my hips a many a woman I have fucked in my days / but all of whom, I praise to you my darling mother of ocean waves / caress forever and a day, onwards

eastern aphrodite / I see you caught up inside so, say you want to leave / well, that would be alright