John Mark doodle down
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Adam & Aphrodite
I came
to the sea
to breathe;
to wet
my gills
and breathe;
to right
my dorsal soul
and swim again,
breathing
easily;
to find
my Adam
in the sand;
my Aphrodite
within the sea;
to know again
the wat'ry womb
of Mother Earth;
to trace
Methanococcus jannaschii
in my family tree;
to ascertain
the microbe's virulence
against crushing pressures--
would I could.
I came
to the sea
to breathe;
but the sounds,
the sights,
the tidal pulse
drive two creation myths
into every fold of skin and body orifice;
one slow and dull,
monosyllabic;
the other poly, sudden
and dramatic.
I came
to the sea
for immersion,
not to debate my birth
or challenge my death,
but to be born again.
Beneath a sky of crackled glass,
in the cold fusion embrace
of sand and brine,
Adam and Aphrodite
unite.