Open Water

Labor long
at the edge
of another wave,
of another birth,
where it is simple to list
the ways you have been lost

at sea before,
the ocean lovely,
the enormous confusion a leviathan
who wanders leeway
past the bow of this ship.

Set the sails free
and cast away into the watery blue.

Taste the salt on your lips
as you disappear into the nothingness
of open water.