The Green Tricycle: Issue #3: Water: Annette Marie Hyder

Issue 3:
Water
Annette Marie Hyder

Tidal Wave

Love was a goddess
a body of water
large and salty and brown.

Her surface puckered
dimpled and moved
in synchrony
with your hands.

She transfixed you
with her trident
and tsunami strength.

That she was brown
muddy, from all of her
vast experience
her churned up depths
made you long
for muddiness, too.

Warned
of her sucking whirlpools
and teeth like rocks
her entangling seaweed hair

you hurled yourself
in a porpoise's
perfect arcing dive.

The fear
that you could drown
a feathered lure
tickled your fancy.

Your only wish
to be buried at sea.

~Annette Marie Hyder

Annette, a freelance writer, has had poetry published online and in print, with more forthcoming this fall and winter. Email.