Deep Isolation Of The Shuttered Eye Poem by Stan Petrovich

the sea is deeply isolated:
as its overlord, landlord,
earthen constraint
stands in charge over it.,

seeking its own level,
unlike the land,
it is pushy for food
on an horizontal basis
primarily, but
with exception.

a dog is thrown into the sea;
maybe shipwrecked sailors as well,
out of element
they usually drown,
get eaten by sharks;
but what say there is
a vault of salinity
so great it solves
death in slices.

a marshy layer
the souls awake into;
demeter thrusting her crowned head
into hades
and returning unscathed;
why not so now,
if it was done then,
done well enough for homer & others to
sing it down to us

for lively discussion
because in the absence of land
we deeply isolate our imagination
in the churn of the sea.

we see the sea
as the back of our heads.