Blood Song

 

Brenda Cooper

 

Ship’s engines beat my blood

data is a ghost

Is living

Is a ghost

Is living

Is a ghost, living

 

The ship and I kiss,

each of our air pulled

through membranes

through lungs.

I am the ship

is in

that air.

We breathe each other.

 

To recall my body requires the dig of fingernail

into flesh, the hollow of a parched and empty

body. It hurts to be only one.

 

~*~

From David Lee’s Journal, undated. Historians believe it may have been from before he ever reached Fremont. It may help illuminate the mental instability of powerful Wind Readers.