insomnie marine
the salt of insomnia burns my temples
I pick up black shells
along the endless shore
aquamarine eternity
white surf dancing
under the roof of summer
*Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have been published in The Scrambler, Everyday Other Things, Haiku Journal, MOLT and Quantum Poetry Magazine, among others.
'Insomnie marine' originally appeared in Shinshi, 2011