KA Rees #14 - Strange wreck

Strange wreck

Insects,

burnt leaves

dismembered wings,

holed and barnacled drift

wood froth on the orange strip

of sand pushed landward this strange

wreck in the shallows where a rock lobster lies

halved, missing all of its legs but gaining Neptune’s

necklaces, rings of shells and tiny stars, a cut of cuttlefish

sticking out—like the deck of a surfboard,—bereft of its housing

of flesh. Like flesh, some type of sponge coursing with natatorial life, but

a strange hybrid, pulmonary veins and arteries jut out. A booted foot has left a print

the indentation deeper the impression this alien heart was worth a closer look. White bone, 

three knuckled segments with the neural chords snapped clean. Shore break cracks like a bullwhip.