natural - shira erlichman

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Each 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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