Stronger Than Dirt

Sand Formations
Feeling invulnerable (numb)
stealing a page from
some blue manual of piety
I’m not sure what it
means but I understand how
tiring it must be
learning how to breathe again

Something Outside
I find her at a beach I only
remember in dreams
where the pupils of her eyes were
prayers pinned to sky black canvas
& you could hear the shoes of nuns
at a midnight procession

I am thinking of a wave
This is your formal invitation
to death by drowning