Morning Routine
Pull the ocean from your lips
Leave the salt & pack sunlight in
Check nails, mouth, eyeline for color
Stand tall in riverwater
Squeeze sunshine with your teeth
Drip, sud all over
Fashion yourself a glimmer
Or a ghost, depending on the day
& it’s course form of drowning
Oil the body to trap the light
Color nails, mouth, eyeline depending
On how you would like to be found:
Resuscitated & glamour-wrought
(at least the hands are worth saving)
Or deracinated & nude as beginning
(pull off the ocean & try again)