Alive 

 

if i listen

if i listen

 

my eyes want to name

my eyes want to contain

 

if i listen           stretch             out

listening reaches                      beyond

 

listening

 

i breathe in       yah

i breathe out       wey

 

i listen to the resonance,

each breath is the first

 

we draw in life             yah

we release into being            wey

 

some call it God

 

 

 

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© Sharon Lopez Mooney, "Language of the sea", originally published in Ginosko Literary Journal, Spring Issue #28, Ed. Robert Paul Cesaretti, Fairfax, CA, Spring 2022, print & online

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