Yesterday, Nereids opened sleep-blessed eyes in subaquatic crystal caves, not knowing they’d never return. Yesterday, Nereus washed his hands of his daughters, sent them in mists and drifts over selkie rocks to play with the seal-maidens where he did not hear their incessant laughter reminding him of shared grief. Yesterday, A lunar mind hemmed in…
Dear sister, I understood your longing, for I felt it first. Lying on the sandbank, sea waves quietly tickling your fins, ears windswept for once. Music, carriages, voices, church bells rang in the early morning when the moon still bathed our scales. Baby sister, I enraptured you before the sailor's shadow. I only wanted your…
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