Written in collaboration with S Francis at SailorPoet after they uncovered and shared a couple of fragments found in journals. – Gecko and Mouse
In the sleepless nights since you left
I have become a ghost
Haunting lonely shores.
My restless legs cover miles
Before giving out.
I am raw, ragged
Who will walk with me through
The darkside of this morning
Where our kaleidoscoped story
Hovers above the water’s surface
Piercing me before they blur in the brine?
I clutch one eidolon
You drowsy and tousled in my tee shirt
Borrowed fabric softly falling
Shaping the constancy of arousal
The obvious distaff dangers unhidden
The rhythmic glitter of dawn on the surf
Belies dangers of the relentless undertow
pulls away and pulls away and pulls away
Underfoot.
Swallowed milligrams of sunlight
Penetrate bare boned trees, symbolic.
The onus of my salvation.
An image given
By a phantom.
I drop to my knees and see red
Stains on the mica staged to process the sun.
A drop of blood escapes my mouth
lands on the salt of the water.
I taste the essence of my pain.
I close my eyes to escape
This new life of me without you.
In sleep the surf tosses me
my dreams churn in the sand.
I reach into the mud to
pull out our story
before the ocean steals it back.
Reblogged this on Secret First Draft: A Site of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective and commented:
F Francis of SailorPoet and Christine Ray of Brave and Reckless collaborate
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A true pleasure collaborating. 🤓
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Thank you sir! It was indeed.
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Bravo! Beautifully written you two. 💕
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Thank you OldePunk! I love when two writing voices come together and blend.
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Thank you kind sir! I echo Christine, a fun challenge and a fun trip. One I look forward to going on again!
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Beautiful poem from Sailor And Brave
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Nice, it met me and took me deeper.
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Thank you! S Francis is a fabulous writer and our voices blended beautifully for the collaboration
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Love it!
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Thank you my dear!
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My pleasure. The imagery’s fantastic.
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Wonderful!
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Thanks Mark!
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Excellent collab 🙂
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Thank you! S Francis is terrific
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Yes, and it seems that you both are!
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Why thank you! It was so seamless that we are now having a hard time remembering who wrote what.
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I love it when that happens. Magic!
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Indeed!
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Was fun to do and a great joy to find a good mesh of words with Christine .
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Collaborations between Christine Ray/Brave and Reckless and S Francis/SailorPoet
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