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Coral

by Shivani
on August 21, 2021
in Poems in Magazines

Crackling pink, a sea bird’s
morning eye plunders deep
down the water cage and
finds coral beds firing
polyps to contact the sun.

Vision of a wound, from
acreage of stolen incidents,
an eye borne of the rocks,
musters the creature torn
and parading between
two worlds,
extension of beast
and the soft touch.

The glands of the globe
deliver a sound like a
breath, a marine mantra
softly going north
from a base of genic heads,
a family huddled in but
generous, giving anthems
made from a lung-dwelling,
unlike the scratchings of speech.

The morning eye turns dusk,
and gathers the polyps,
slowly, it sets aim towards
the disk, hoping that the fire
promotes nothing but a pot
of prayer where ashes will
find their utterance.

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