[New-Poetry] Ozymadias and me

[JforJames at aol.com]

Atoll Halo 

The seaplane put down  
in an aquamarine lagoon,  
ringed by an atoll reef. 
The small island inside 
was a treeless mound of  
rounded stone, blazing white  
at midday. The island thought  
at first to be a worn dome  
of congealed lava, but divers  
exploring around the island  
discovered it to be the bald pate  
of an immense statuary god,  
sunk hundreds of feet  
below the waves, body 
a limestone home 
to countless species 
of fish and anemone 
that worshipped  
around its torso,  
knee-deep in coral, 
feet buried in silt  
become  clay.




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