Thursday, February 24, 2011

Advice for a Young Woman Who Suddenly Finds Herself as a Mermaid without a Man, Or, Between Us Girls

They say the whole world is carried
on one turtle's back. This weight might be kinder

And lighter than Teresea's guilt
which fills me-- in this case, I'm the vase

her eyelight looks out my eyeholes until
I can't see the horizan or even

the fire breathing atmosphere.
What I am trying to tell you is that its dark

out there. Don't mistake the yellow shoreline for
any species of salvation, it's a place where whales go to die.

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