By Kerry Loughman
never budged
becalmed she was
bleached by sun
& beached on relentless rise
of blue water liquid leeched
from her eyes her orifices
her great mouth agape
her lungs did evaporate
Climate-changed her
wishes drowned
in sand
Kerry Loughman is a retired educator and photographer living in the Boston area. She writes about memory, art, family, and nature in the city, looking for small transient moments of beauty . . . or discord. Her work has appeared in Mass Poetry’s The Hard Work of Hope and Poem of the Moment, Nixes’ Mate, What Rough Beast, The Main Street Rag and is forthcoming in Lily Poetry Review.
Image credit: “The Whale” by Christopher Michel via a Creative Commons license.
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Just re-reading your powerful poem, and crying, again.
K-B
A wonderful editorial decision to pair the poem with Christopher Michel’s haunting black and white photograph. They lay on the page like twins. You’d think that he and I had collaborated on the finished work. Thank you for your eyes and ears ! Makes my appearing on this site doubly satisfying.