A Window Is a Sea
-Dean Young
She is a window
into which words swirl
in an effortless maze
of decomposition. There’s
no way out
even if she could find
the key to where the sea
meets the glassy pain
of resistance
previously called brittle
now a gelatinous mass
sliding as if the least touch
releases a jellyfish sting.
It is remarkably miniscule
with persistence to grow
given sips of fresh water.
Acidification is definitely
complicating her prognosis,
the miniscule made
a brilliant determining factor
of dumb luck –
or none.
Bionote
Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have recently been published in Raven Chronicles, U City Review and Ekphrastic Review as well as in anthologies, All We Can Hold and Ice Cream Poems. Her poetry has received two Pushcart Nominations.
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