Made Mostly of Water
Jamaica, 2009
and still the body trembles
hesitates into the cool belly
of ocean, the salt staining lips
as the mouth wraps around apparatus
and breathes. head bobs below surface
sees the jagged cliff of reef, of urchin
its million hands dancing to your
welcome song, and though the others
fin past you; the dive instructors
out of bread to beckon the school of
sky stripped fish: you squeeze your eyes
take in every drop around you, let it
rub against your skin as tiny sand sized
lovers, and my when they come, they swarm
around your floating frame as a well-fit gown
and how you dance, how they carry you off
in a blur of azure