Axolotls Do It Better So Now I Am an Axolotl
Not all goodbyes are tragic unless they beginfor someone else & this one did & I can't stop
carrying you under my coastal grooves where there's a hundred years of you larval for life, forever newt- like & never to arise the canals & floating gardens. Go on & feed [finite them ] to kelp & coral reefs. Never again to such perfect day security would I promise our tartare lives. Or would I try to close such eyes that bury me alive in sea anemones growing toward our feet & never where the sun would be
do we bite off each other's limbs & return in angles un-right
when our ancestors said no & went back in, supercluster that would drown the universe.
We are the layer under human skin. We are swimming toward each other under their dead skin like a thousand holy grails smashed against white cells & terrain graces. My darling laurel -wreathed & unripened,
there is only you
knocking down a sad plastic fish bowl tower with melting stone & dandelion.