Shabby chic

my body is a shipwreck
blooming with coral

I open my legs and out pour
gold doubloons

it
is
impossible
to
slam
a
door
underwater

there is an opening here
fathoms deep

I have made a mast of myself
washed up on a beach somewhere

once a treasure trove               always a treasure trove

 

 

Sarah Greenwood is a poet and translator from Lancashire who migrated to the Algarve, Portugal in 2006. Her poems have been published in Amethyst Review and Up the Duff (DragonYaffle, 2022). She is on Twitter @sarahtranslated and IG @sarah_translated.