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Lovely

by Scott Snyder, www.scottsnyderphotography.com

If the ocean had a mouth

by Marie-Elizabeth Mali

I'd lean close, my ear

to her whisper and roar,

her tongue scattered

with stars.

She'd belt her brassy voice

over the waves' backbeat.

No one sings better than her.

Would she ever bite

the inside of her cheek?

Would she yell at the moon

to quit tugging at her hem,

or would she whistle, drop

her blue dress and shimmy

through space to cleave

to that shimmer?

What did she mean to say

that morning she spit out

the emaciated whale

wearing a net for a corset?

All this emptying

on the sand. Eyeless

shrimp. Oiled pelicans.

Within her jaws the coral forests,

glittering fish, waves like teeth,

her hungry mortal brine.

Copyright © 2014 by Marie-Elizabeth Mali. Used with permission of the author.

About This Poem 

"As an underwater photographer one of the things I love most about being in the ocean is interacting with a world that has nothing to do with me, a world with its own passions, social structures, dangers. The awareness that we humans are harming that world is always with me so I wondered what the ocean might say if given a chance."

--Marie-Elizabeth Mali