Even if it’s for just a moment, have you ever had that sensation that you’re sliding up out of sleep and into awake-ness, like transferring up out one world into another?
WAKING
“Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.” – Roberto Bolaño
Breaching
surface
a mermaid reborn
to walk the earth.
Dripping
from scalp
from ocean pressed
ebony tresses–
seawater celestial blues
prismed through trans-
terrestrial matrix
of sentient
light.
Higher
she rises
faster falls
these dream
sapphires
of iridescence
into oblivion
of the
forgotten.
First published in The Amphibian Literary and Art Journal, March 2025; part of debut poetry collection ‘Dear Planet’ to be published by Fidessa Literary later this year.
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