In Bluest Deep

Sinking down
To dreamless sleep
Displaced
Embraced
In bluest deep

Silent Ships
Their secrets keep
Above the
Silver waves
Widows weep

Manderley Swain

February 18, 2022

Tea With Circe

Waterline gets lower each year
Yet still I’m drowning
Treading water in a teacup
Charybdis carries me
Clawing at the currents
Searching for stillness
Snatched up by Scylla instead
Surviving by grace or perseverance
Returned to an endless sea
By some mad caprice
Waves still churning
Roiling, boiling mindless spatters
Overflowing teacup shatters
Circe’s enchantment released

January 22, 2020

Comes The Rain

Comes the rain
Cooling crackling heat
Of harsh dry days

Comes the rain
Blinding silvery sheets
Obscuring unfriendly terrain

Comes the rain
Silent secrets sleep
In wailing watery wake

Comes the rain
Flooding crowded streets
Cleansing sinister stains

Comes the rain
Lovers lying sweet
Kisses sighing “Stay”

Written March 14, 2019