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Oceanic Lyrics by Trevor Hoag

Poems (Trevor Hoag)

2017

Oceanic
(I)
Without its secrets
The depths would pale
And fade
Into forgotten hymns
When her brown eyes
Bend with the wide curve
Of crescent lips
I remember now
The ambiguity of sin
Oceanic coastal rain
Falls in large hard drops
Freed of salt and spray
I pray the
Only tears she
Cries for me
Are when we
Laugh like waves
(II)
If only
These hands could grasp and frame
The Atlantic with its soft white sheets
I would
Part the foaming sea so that
You might tread new sands
Sea-life for company
Suspended artwork
Call whatever frozen wastelands
Might keep you in Our Palace
Behind moats
Where we breathe colors
Red and blue and green
Where we
Feast upon ambrosia
And dreams
(III)
The blackness of dusk comes
Creeping out from beds
Beneath the deeps
And there are miles to go
Before we sleep
When the largest star falls
Without a splash
Without echo or wake
Ripples from her iron back
Porcelain cheeks
Steel thighs
And long hard
Sighs
Her gasps, moans,
And screams
Sweetly christened
Names
A look of hunger
Intoxicated blood
Kisses in caves and intimate folds
Electrocuted light
To match eels
Rays, fins,
And scales
The wreckages of ships
Long rusted
Barnacles on crystal chandeliers
To match the stones
I hang from tiny ears
To match the lightning
That forever peals when
You whisper honey syllables
(IV)
When such tempests rage
Where the water turns to blades
When it seems the madness
Of the moon has infected brine
Turning molecules to wine
Where Egyptian plagues wane
As frail comparisons
We will never waiver
Veins held together by
Inseparable Bond
By the want to dance a life
That bursts unstoppable
Magma and hot bubbles
On the floors of lost trenches
Volcanoes being born
(V)
And whatsoever we may mourn
Decaying whales with skeletons
Like ivory mountains
Bones curved as Justice’s fine bright arc
We will stay as One
Though reborn
Limbs of starfish
Manifold
Credits
Trevor Hoag

Trevor Hoag

About “Oceanic” by Trevor Hoag

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"Oceanic" appears on "Poems (Trevor Hoag)" in 2017.

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