Friday 18 April 2014

NaPoWriMo 18/30 - Salt Water & Aloe + Day 19 Prompt


Salt Water & Aloe

These are the things the body asks for
Pour me salt water and aloe
replenish

all this dry tinder
and cracked pavement
in a frayed shell

this is how life ends
but it started
with salt and
viscous liquids
accidental organics
single cells
mutating
motility
mobility

nomads
moving further and further into sun
lungs remember
the cooling clean
of gills
the flow and rinse

we have yet to learn
photosynthesis
we are made of water
salt
aloe’s enzymes and lignins
direct our cells

we are as old
as we are new

compunds
in a landscape
of body
flowing through time

craving salt water
to purify
aloe
to heal

18/30
NaPoWriMo
2014
DAY 19 PROMPT:  Operating Instructions



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