—I TURN TO STONE

 

 

near greece 

 

we were told 

so flippant and

judiciously

just float to liberty! 

and so we did

but there is no freedom 

here or anywhere 

just as there is 

no longer a boat 

beneath us 

no heaven above

nothing that claims us 

only miles-deep sea

180 bodies crushed and 

turned to plankton

the captain be first to leap 

while the waves held

their hands wide open 

as each of us plunged 

another offering for 

an ocean with too many