From the Deep Blue Sea

Where from come I?

From a deep, dark place

Where from come I?

From the silt of the deep blue sea

Flowing and forming

and spanked to the shore

to open a mouth

and fill the lungs

with air I feed this life

with feet I fled the sea

with fire I made the food

for the ceaseless belly

Upon the earth I dwell

From mother to mother to mother

all-a-one

-Gillian Cornwall,

copyright August 8, 2010