As if a star blinked And popped To black her place As if a bulb blew She turned the room Inside out As if I sailed A thousand miles To see the sea vanish I stopped And turned My words around And still no trace

Leap Over the ledge I dangle my foot Like a testing of temperature, The water seems warm And the air looks clear She’s swimming Down below I know it, Though I Cannot See her Dipping Roller Coaster Undulations Sweeping coral, curling tail Around the rocks she motions As a beckoning finger up towards me All this ocean rush would hush the clutter Clanging metal banging around my skull shaking Soaked up in the sea green blues she paints with the swish of her tail I want to dive - to see her smile horizon wide - and swim in to the depths of her