Mother Doesn’t Bite
I bite instead and she needs salt,
a little more time on the grill.
Young men are coming,
they’ll want her.
Her head is an oyster
turned out of a shell.
She needs her rocks,
and wave after wave.
I’m riding this dream,
her claws position me, specimen
ready for the knife. But who
holds the light?
The young men laugh.
It’s a game, it’s fun, it’s everyday.
I run across the beach,
a toll at last tolling.
Gulls rise with her eyes,
They shriek, night
iced under their wings,
its salt falling.
