Rock Salt

Meet me at dusk by the shore

Through lips dripping in salt water

We will whisper wet words

You can try and break the surface

I can try and glisten blurred eyes

We can sway against white waves

Or rock against darkening stone

Before the sky grows and you

Take me back to your grey cave

Where I’ll come staggering and pulling

The seaweed from my body

As you brush the sand from your eyelashes

We can swim

You can wash me slowly

In the rhythm of your salinity

I can gasp for air

But I hope you drown me

So we wash up with the dawn

I will meet you where you leave me

On the shore

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