These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share, click the clapping hands below, or throw me a dollar for coffee if you enjoy these.
The Sargasso Sea Is Plenty Wide, and It’s Growing
Article at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-sargassum)
female folk singer (“Blue Norther” by Louise Taylor)
When there is no land,
you must bloom in water,
bloom until you
make an island, a land mass,
a continent, bloom,
you are a yellow maze
that holds the life,
draping on coral reefs
bloom as the wind
blows you westward,
bloom until
you ruin beaches, ruin nations,
crash economies, suck up
the greenhouse gases and let
the people breathe while
you choke the beaches,
bloom till they take bulldozers and backhoes
and big ships, and die and stink
of sulphur and they put you back into the sea.
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