Floating in a warm salt sea
The sensation of falling before your own weight disrupts the surface and you sink
The sand tumbled in water brushing your foot scrabbling for the words at the bottom of the water
The push into the air like a mermaid like a gull cackling for crabs cracked on the rocks
The flight over the rolling hills, fishtail flapping, fish eyes open to the sun for the first time, fish eyes opening on either side of a human face
The trees are losing their leaves
When you jump in the leaf pile who knows what spiders will silk across your skin
You are burrowing
You are at the lemon crust of the sun
You are sunburned in the surf surfing
Your feet buzzing with the warmth of the stars
Your hair alive in the wind
You dive
The mermaid goes to sleep in the kelp
The gull goes to sleep in the palm
The palm of your hand goes to sleep around a pearl
Like god holding the whole earth.

[Featured Image: Lesser black-backed gulls, Creative Commons license]