Sunburnt

[poet-rice]

sunburnt

Sandcastle battlements persuade
seaweed spatters to embark, teeth bleed,
when torrent sung sharks parade the dark, to graft.

Fin cascades, push blank shores like blades.
Choke reefs in tank drawers, inhale

the still kerosene gleans, flood and wade
the salt flat damages, persuade cliffs of greed,
then fuck in agitation, sunburnt complexions.

Sand spade splays, dive manmade plastic blades, this war
pledged fauna to grave. Salt taste divides push ores,

motioned past populations, ripples, flowered from electric ray waves,
drown starved. Poseidon averts his trident gaze to
pebbled tides, sifts water, watches dead, leisures to splash.

Head damages pleat to drawn curtain yawns, filled lungs withdraw,
driven winded in descent,

sun semantics reprieve the screensaver beach palms. Day
done currents swell to stays, 
wave pool ravages gash

drunk sharks, shadows in drawbridge
circles, eye battlements faded in the hour dry cement.