WAKING

Even if it’s for just a moment, have you ever had that sensation that you’re sliding up out of sleep and into awake-ness, like transferring up out one world into another?

WAKING

“Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.” - Roberto Bolaño

Breaching

surface

a mermaid reborn

to walk the earth.

Dripping

from scalp

from ocean pressed

ebony tresses–

seawater celestial blues

prismed through trans-

terrestrial matrix

of sentient

light.

Higher

she rises

faster falls

these dream

sapphires

of iridescence

into oblivion

of the

forgotten.

First published in The Amphibian Literary and Art Journal, March 2025; part of debut poetry collection ‘Dear Planet’ to be published by Fidessa Literary later this year.