create waves in the space
between my stomach
and mouth.
They fill me up with salt
and force.
I cough, I wheeze,
choke--
sometimes I drown.
Get pulled down
into the swell-
ears ringing,
lungs aching,
head throbbing at the pressure
which pushes every morsel of
light
out around me,
until there is only blackness.
There is only the deep
and me,
buried in the sand.