Unpublished: The Southern Ocean

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This is unrelated to my previous blog post. I just wanted to share something as I work on longer projects <3 I love this one a lot.

H. Salt

The Southern Ocean

From the deck of my 

shambly creaking ship

I saw waves screaming 

at each other, slapping, 

crying, crashing, dragging

each other down under. 

I was drenched, shaking,

a wet cat mewing for

my mother. Between

mouthfuls of sea water,

I managed to find five

things I could see, four

I could hear, then touch, 

smell, taste. I blinked and

the waves were gone. 

In the crystalline blue

waters I could make out

the parts of myself I was

so afraid of the world

seeing. They bobbed to the 

surface, thousands, drifting,

baking beneath an unforgiving sun. 

I exhaled the smell of rot,

noticing the horizon stretching

all around me. I suppose

there is an end to all

bad things.