Why do we dream of mermaids?
Why do we listen for the siren’s wail?
Why this yearning for water?
And the Lord God said unto the serpent
Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed
upon thy belly shalt thou go
And the earth was without form
and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep
Beckoning from unfathomable depths
Awakening, remembering, reckoning
Monstrous, familiar, old as time