Shark
Dreaming
In a thought, I caught a dream.
It was there but a second
yet worth a day or more.
Water filled my lungs
and I surfaced in a bay.
A single breath of air
seemed to last forever.
I dived beneath the waves and
met an oncoming friend.
The water around me moved.
My hair moved with it.
A shark swam over me,
A second joined it.
The sea current moved
the kelp below us.
Sunlight filtered through
the water above.
The sharks swam to the surface
and I rose to join them.
Rows of razor white teeth
I felt at peace with them.
Human and shark,
dangerous predators.
Yet we got along.
We understood.
(C) Copyright 1999
ANAMAEA EASTCOTT
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(c) Anamaea Eastcott.
Shark.
24/12/96
