HEIDI MORRELL
Kingdom of Sea
Shore swells compelled by the moon,
driven by massive currents
crest, curl and thunder down,
a process of eons,
carving rock into sand,
making shelves in the rugged continent.
Light strewn coral beds form,
a divine circus of lively function,
where colors have fins,
where eels sway their grotesque heads,
jellies drift in, mollusks sieve the waves,
and big lipped groupers idly fan the water,
while ocean turtles stop in for rest
their flat fin pausing over orange stars,
purple urchins, frenetic crabs.
Further out in that cobalt blue,
bullet nosed swift hunters abound,
slicing through the water,
screaming towards prey.
They shatter schools in frenzy,
eat and gorge,
the bloodied column
now littered with flesh.
Debris sifts down,
settles in the abyss,
where meters long ribbon fish,
anglers and bizarre bioluminescent fish
reside in blackness,
where molten vents host strange worms
in the starless midnight
of the fathomless deep.
Way above,
world traveling cetaceans fly though
in brighter light
glide as whales, whacking the surface
gulping krill,
family types, dolphins too,
sonar squeaks and chatter,
they breech and plunge,
pirouette and dance in the volumes,
the ancient sea, spawner of life
our salt tears a vestige of then,
a link to the water planet.
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HEIDI MORELL
Beyond the Furrows
for E. Dickinson
That you know the harsh swell,
the knot of stricture
and the great release of death.
That you know the veined eyelid
a moment pressed
by the fiber hunting bird
paused upon your fence.
That you gathered fields and nimbus skies
into your clear but cautious heart,
sweeping ashes all the while
with a broom bound for your work apart.
That you never ventured far aloft
or trundled beyond the furrows,
you still applied joyful palettes soft
no isolation could narrow.
That next your kind eyes keen and smart
spill dark and grievous throes,
how did you know all this was a part,
you just looked I suppose.
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MARTIN JERVIS
Gardener's Delight
(a story of the garden)
Courgettes are hatching like swarms of blowflies,
Absorbing chicken shit phosphates, osmotic balance,
To the sun, a burning orb, they photo trope,
Stretching out warty, green fingers, pointing compass.
Tomato plants, three feet tall, twisting, climbing high,
Slaking a desert thirst in gallons of feed, topers,
Drunken side shoots, aliens, plucked like eyebrows,
Fruits swelling up, water-logged, young sibling melons.
The runner beans, scarlet-faced, pace making the field,
Peas, mange-tout, broad beans pant behind the leaders,
Top of a ten-foot pole, no footholds, viridian crampons,
Running in spikes, explodes from starting blocks to the wire.
Herbs, sun-tanned, a perfuming whore's bath of chemicals,
Luxuriate in soup warm water, pleasured at midday rise,
Reach out, lazily, fatherless coils trailing on paths, from leisure
And predatory ownership, many tongued serpents slide.
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