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.