There's
a pier and a pile of fishing
lures,
a boat and whiskey in the air.
There's
too many hushed drips of
names
and watered down questions.
There’s waves tugging at the sides of my
gut
and there’s your lips sucking down the
ocean.
Drip.
Poke.
Are you still there?
I really
shouldn’t have swallowed those
nickels.
Salt water corrodes metal,
indeed indeed.
You shut a
door- a light shutters
out.
Hushed drips. Pushed slips.
Splash!
The water
is cold this time of the
year,
be a black seal and slip through the
crevasses.
Quick, the
shutters are closing
faster.
Click.