Turtle Shell
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008
shook through the threshold and salted away
to a grey island astray
where sound can be found washed up on the shore
whistling, waiting for more
Hello
waves take me places
above I see the faces
planets refracting through
are you true?
sea horse, soul sweat
stand trial by fire
sand man’s pan pipes
fill the sky with ashe
clipse the night
turtle shell
Planets created sound
heard above our native burial ground
last seen by dying eyes
the shell of Neptune lies
sea horse, soul sweat
stand trial by fires
and man’s pan pipes
fill the sky with ash
eclipse the night
turtle shell