A mucus bubble oozes from my mouth and swaddles me into night. Clever ancestors also keep me safe amid parasites. During the day I rasp coral to gather algae. Diversity still blooms. Water’s pressure is no pressure at all. My rough lips smack the ocean of love. Hormones gush a rainbow of color.
a coral necklace
gift wrapped
more is less in this case
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Laurie Wilcox-Meyer’s Circling Silence was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press. Of Wilderness and Flight was published in 2019 by FootHills Publishing. Conversation In The Key Of Blue,her latest collection,was published by Main Street Rag Publishing in 2020. Laurie Wilcox-Meyer lives in the French Broad River basin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she often spots bears while hiking and meditating about her next poem.
