From mermaids’ purses,
Like sunken treasure in the deep cavernous black
From silken sinuous skin
Beautiful as it gleams from Mariana’s Crack
From teeth like talons
Razor sharp knives set in soft pink insides
From bright blue aquamarine gallons
Disembodied molecules of colorful plastic pieces floating
From gentle lapping waves,
Like butterfly kiss currents
From fishy flesh that we crave,
A liquid thicker than water like juice on my tongue
From loud silence
and the resonant rhythms of booming whale frequencies
From thicker than water,
The color red, the taste of a delicious meal
From pain and the loss of fins, rotting flesh,
unforgiven bodies on beached sand
That great big ocean,
The crying sky,
A plastic oceanic tide,
The beauty and the destruction
That,
is where I am from
Samantha Sena
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