crystal air shimmers solar rays;
glint off rippled silver-blue rippling
on past the ends of the world.
waves wrinkle, unwrinkling, and crest
ever changing, never changing.
like a trailing silk ribbon windblown.

breach.

and arch a barnacled back
sunder the surface into a million airborne diamonds
splinter Ocean with all your heart.

breach.

cragged falling pillars blue, give
rocket-charged snow sparrows flight
diagonally shooting wings.

I, earth-treader, long to hear
your piercing song of melting ice, storming,
swimming seas salted mysterious.
trembling, weary wail, spins the tale:
ancient monsters, fathoms perilous.
Drifting Children of Ocean.
Those Who Bore the Hunted Century
Survivors of the Spear of Ahab.

scarred-runic tail, twist
propel to the warping world
glossy with snaking light and

breach.

as trembling tremor-shivers, the core
may slice a glacier
and as air, kiss the mountainside
into avalanche.
breach, tempest-tested, whirlpool traveler:
detonate with celebration,
of water, of life, of force.