Nancy Campbell, Iced, 2023 (Website, Instagram)
Gouache on paper, 10 x 14”

The last air of my lungs out

of me, I sink myself

to the sea floor, join

the mollusks wide-eyed

at the ocean’s surface. I watch

the light glistening, the blur

of sky, an edge

of cliff, bobbing above me.

 

In the distance, a whale calls

me by my new name. A wordless

bellow of low

frequency.

 

I convert

into salt

& restless

wonder.

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes


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