Bladderwrack
As if bladderwrack
lay
declining over shingle,
waiting for the surf’s
sobbed bite to take it back.
Salt and tyranny, smear and tangle,
inextricably en-nerved: the slaving
call
that knits sheared lovers
with purple laver.
Befellow the manumit’s hanker
after
the comfort of chains, after
the wide Sargasso anchor’s
tug back to the sea-grass
mangle.
Matthew wrote that.
lay
declining over shingle,
waiting for the surf’s
sobbed bite to take it back.
Salt and tyranny, smear and tangle,
inextricably en-nerved: the slaving
call
that knits sheared lovers
with purple laver.
Befellow the manumit’s hanker
after
the comfort of chains, after
the wide Sargasso anchor’s
tug back to the sea-grass
mangle.
Matthew wrote that.