natural - shira erlichman
Dec. 24th, 2024 09:18 pmEach subway car will be left on the ocean floor, to be assimilated into the ecosystem. Over time, every surface will be covered in life, creating an artificial coral reef.
—“Stunning Photos Showing NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped into the Ocean,” Viral Forest
Today I don’t want to take you
so I imagine you a subway car
push you over my edge
to rust at my seafloor.
Ferment & flower, metallic
traveler. I’ve been thrown
off my axis so-
rrow’s my monogamous
love. Once I shunned you
wanting to be “natural”—
tea tree milk, sprouted
cashews, bark deodorant
“natural.” Stopped taking you
& soon was lost in snow
stroking branches for hours for
hours walked jagged circles
muttering sudden secrets revealed
by ice wept.
Against my will I swallow two
busted down caterpillars
let you sink to the bottom.
“It’s not personal,” I tell myself.
Even the sea needs even
the sea needs, the sea
needs, even the sea
(shira erlichman)
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—“Stunning Photos Showing NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped into the Ocean,” Viral Forest
Today I don’t want to take you
so I imagine you a subway car
push you over my edge
to rust at my seafloor.
Ferment & flower, metallic
traveler. I’ve been thrown
off my axis so-
rrow’s my monogamous
love. Once I shunned you
wanting to be “natural”—
tea tree milk, sprouted
cashews, bark deodorant
“natural.” Stopped taking you
& soon was lost in snow
stroking branches for hours for
hours walked jagged circles
muttering sudden secrets revealed
by ice wept.
Against my will I swallow two
busted down caterpillars
let you sink to the bottom.
“It’s not personal,” I tell myself.
Even the sea needs even
the sea needs, the sea
needs, even the sea
(shira erlichman)
(source)