THE ART OF DROWNING

THE ART OF DROWNING

so many people
drowning themselves
getting drowned
in this Shelley family

save for Mary
I see Mary gaunt and
icy brilliant on an
Arctic ice floe
waiting for
the last act of humanity
to play out

myself
nearly drowned
or perhaps did
so should
not be
the one to talk

but Mary your story
still haunts, likely will
haunt forever

taunting us
with the humanity that
is death
is mapped out
aeons
into the future

soon to find itself
alive
in
the heart of the machine