Polar Mermaid

She swims diagonally down
Past the blue to the gray

Past the gray to the gray scale

The tendrils of a sea anenome wave hello

to the mermaid and a capricorn seahorse

A calibrated soot
Passes night into day and day into night
Presses pebbles of air against the underside of ice

Presses a child's face against the pane to see the sharks.

A tip of iceberg in her fin
A shipwrecked vessel: Bottle of gin

Still sealed in the hold of the diver
gentle din...never tried her

A tomb of scientific pride

Seeking information

Too far, too wide

An anchor rotting deep within the easy reach of home

Decode the intimate

Echoes of whales

Seeking partners

Sonar, Radar

Sixth sense

Sixpence

An anchor rotting deep within the easy reach of home

And all the roads that never lead to Rome