Oh Bitter Sea Poem by L.B. Temuco

Oh bitter sea
Let the mournful melody of your tides
recede along the spine of the earth
Let me breathe from the waters you leave
to flow between warm pillars of skin
Oh beloved rain
I will raise myself from this mountain
and taste the edges of clouds
You can ask me then -
the sound of your soft feet approaching
your voice barely heard above
the faded inflection of thinking
we have lain still in the perfume of long silences
How many loves I have wanted to keep
as illuminations
as infinities
as floods
Oh bitter sea