AMNION – the membrane which contains the amniotic fluid, that broth from which all life emerges….
AMNION
– OR –
UPON THE SEA OF SOULS
(A VICTORIAN REVERIE)
The roiling mysterious depths of
The Sea of Souls
Her ghosts restive
Under the Moons of Change
Her surface adrift with the Living
Whose various barques of flesh
Makeshift on such ancient waters
And at the mercy of the Dead’s
Unseen currents
Float precarious and shifting
Together, apart, en masse, alone
Their craft implacably aging
Their momentum the pleasure of
Forgotten custom
And long unspoken ritual
What song, what ceremony
To guide this motley, quick fleet
To give direction to those
Who still raise their sails
To the sun?…
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