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3. by eleanor gray

9/14/2018

 
moon, tyrant of the sea, may the tides be her bedding
the witch-tongue her means                      to speak
& the umber-furl of pine’s spectral mist
                                                her hair      to tangle

unfathomable nightbirds shed
their tears                                        of the Estranged

where voids ache in the empty air
come to me, the lilies spill
                                       from the mouth of mourning
infinitely into every distance

        I am changed
buried in the dark movements of beloved
the unwritten laws                                     of water

shadow-bringing master, I took, and was taken,
I had to touch, and hold,               all that was not mine
a hunger that did not belong to me

Selene,
I see your pale restlessness              in a sky of thieves
you are like me,
                         gone, unsung,                  forgotten

made to wander over the sea
                                 where the fine-boned wind breathes

hold me to my name, the kingdom of wheat
and the shore I belong to

press the old-woods to your lips and draw meals,
bleeding silver sideways into marshland,
the dark human waters of mother

​already, I am part of you

Eleanor Gray lives in California with her partner and cat, Puck. You can find her poetry in I-70, Cosmographia, Rising Phoenix and her personal blog, smakkabagms.tumblr.com.
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