Diary of Water
Rise from the water tunnels spinning from seabed,
our first pierced breaths of oxygen are like an embryonic rush for birth
swaying on the surface – half in one world – breath and sight in another.
We reach the barrens of land through countless incarnations of various deities
we had come out of the water surviving on the dryland,
knowing we were always sea-bound a curse for the mother of all gods.
We would return to the oceans when concrete flames in a strawberry moon
burn flags mouthing words from another prophet,
will we once again be the liquid before birth after flood in death – the ink in a diary of water.
Matt Duggan is the winner of the Erbacce Prize for Poetry 2015 Poems have appeared in The Journal, Graffiti, The Dawntreader, The Seventh Quarry, Prole, I,S,& T, Lunar Poetry Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Apogee Magazine, The Jawline Review, Harbinger Asylum. His first full collection Dystopia 38.10 (Erbacce-Press) is s now available. http://mattduggan.webnode.com//