Song by the Sea

Girl of green waters, liquid as lies,

Cool as the calloused snow,

From my attic brain and prisoned eyes

Draw me and drown me now.

O suck me down to your weeds and fates,

Green horizontal girl,

And in your salt-bright body breed

My death’s dream-centred pearl.

For locked alive in the brutal bone

I feel my lust of love

Rolling her porpoise thighs alone

Where the tropic channels move.

Her smooth mouth moons among the tides

Sipping the milky fishes,

Her fallow, shallow breasts pile up

Tight with my secret wishes.

Girl of green waters, liquid as light,

Beneath your skin of suns

My frights and frenzies moan asleep,

My deeds are skeletons.

So suck me down to your bed of sand,

Dilute my serpent blood,

Then lift the stain from my crimson hand

And sink it in your flood.