“Aye, the fish should envy me when I sail, while they commit their felonious crimes for hunger.”

“I hear rain and the sea as I change into sleeping, and dream of Venus at sea,
without her shell, drowning in the waves that birthed her.”

“It didn’t echo—it devoured. A cry deeper than the trenches, older than stories. Not the whale. Something else.”

“He pointed to dials, cables, antennae, and quietly added, ‘This is our math. Our science.
It may not sit in a classroom, but it keeps families fed.’”

“rationale is not a thought
when seamen chase their dreams.”

“How long must I stare into the sunset
Till the only thing I can see is you”

“of minerals and liquids,
his body was crystallized
flesh in rotting algae, when he rose up”

“Ulysses’ Homeric Odyssey only lasted twenty years,
ten violent years at war, ten exhausting years to get home”

“You tighten your grip and I fall into the
sea with you again. The anchor I didn’t want to cut loose from.”

"fossilized-wind swept leaves landed in amber, one-million years ago,
sitting on a wooden four-drawer dresser"

“You call out a name breathless on the wind
Singing the unknown of God’s second son”