erupting in waves
against the sheets
the waves against the pink-
tinged sand
white canvas for setting sun
an exotic arc
terrane the
bare
interior oceans like
that this used to be Australia
the Alabama
push
on the soles
all the organs together
all the organs
outlined in the hand
shores
the map of the whole body
condensed to a fetus
remember to breathe
water breaking
sedimentary memory
of proximal continents
that I hardly remember it
learn to
bear down
curled in the ear,
like an ocean
remember
the rush of
a small ocean
depleting
breaks
around a point
in the solar plexus
foreign to me,
my own memory
lodged in breath glottal
bodies in motion
bodies at rest
the new-born
breath
