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Sunken - Jillian Belliveau

Updated: May 20, 2021


chain a weight to my ankles.

take the air from my lungs.

wrap my limbs with seaweed ropes.

blind my open eyes with dusty water.


sink sink

drag me down

to the bottom of the river.

algae covers the surface above

to shield my sinking.


pierce my cheek with a baited hook

then toss me back in.

when you catch me again,

bind my feet

and make me river bass,

distant and passive.


a hiss of pressure

taps my skull, intruding

on my descent.

as the oxygen flees

my brain bears the weight.


I have a choice

to puff my chest and float or

drown, bound and powerless.

thrash and jerk

I sink deeper.


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