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Merwoman
She is flinking
Tail in the sea, head on the rocks
Resting
A man spies her
He has serendibian blue eyes; he
Is a different species, foreign as a zebra.
Sweat beading on his head feels familiar.
She is touched by his baldness;
Her arms about his neck
Reading his body.
This reading is sexy
But it isn’t retelling Ariel’s story
Because a book is different than a baby.
The biology of a mermaid
Giving birth is?
Now imagine
A mermaid writing.
Withdrawing from the water,
She scrawls her tale across paper after paper
The merwoman is a writer;
The poet is a merwoman.