VINYL POETRY

Volume 3, May 2011

BIRDIE
Aricka ForemanView Contributor’s Note

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