Seven Sea Haiku

Seven Sea Haiku / Joshua Alan Sturgill

secret sea-promise
elusive
as ecstasy:
somewhere an island

life phantasmic, life
inversed — of
blood without breath
of flesh without bones

ocean paths twined like
handmade lace
only mother’s
mothers remember

silver pearls fall
from a blue ship
with white sails
— so to sea, the rain

before he vanished
his boat
had long been followed
by cold, lightless eyes

the sun calls brightly
but can never
awaken
these undreaming depths

I saw her and cried
such grief!
— infinite beauty
unreachably far