The Warrants

Published in the Deronda Review, 2023

I will return to the Aegean, the sea

Of my youth where dolphins raced after

Our departing ship in swathes of light

Breaching, jumping, leaping into silver arcs.

The Aegean hides its carnage of flesh

Below the surface yet, deep sea-currents

Diminish the virulence of the viruses

That tatter our wounded world. I will

Commune with the cerulean waves

Of the Aegean as they mingle with the gleam

Of that navy-blue and teal mother-sea

Where ripples and tides swell the billows

And a plankton-filled potency conducts the currents

Through recurrent sun-cycles, our earth’s warrants.