alternative tentacles Church on Thursday
Poetry
Charley Allen

Siren

palm flat against
your stomach, I
write love letters
and search for answers--
my mouth filled
with eons old
secrets,
eyes fixed to the ocean tide
pull of your stomach,
in and out.

waves crash,
spilling over,
pulling me
to sea.

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