ocean, moon

your breath – first breath – on my face

on that scent, unlike anything I had ever encountered

a new reality arose

I smelt it and glimpsed eternal primordial purity

The sudden slip of your body out of mine

As your head made it all the way through

What a journey!

Your red and screaming wonderful face 

Spine straight eyebrows locked, altogether demanding 

“What the fuck is this?!”

Cold bright loud huge dry empty upside down space

and now the smell of blue latex as a gloved finger tries to wrestle my nipple into your tiny new pink mouth

Perfect red lips - rose pout - and you calm and I look into your eyes

A daze

Realise 

I known you a hundred thousand lifetimes and yet

I have never met you before 

You were me

Now we are two

and there you are, glowing, attached to me, navel to womb

by a beating cord - white and red and gristly with cartilage and flowing blood along intricate rivers

My bare legs knees folded up awkward around my trunk with that snaking lifeline winding out from my womb

a spiralling root, unravelled like a butterfly tongue

Proud, rippled as a conch shell

The sound of the ocean still purring inside

And you, my little mermaid, purple dolphin diving fists first kicking feet off the side of your pool, my diaphragm, into the wide world

onto your great grandmother’s rug, under our gazing eyes, blinking drinking in the milky morning light 

And you, glowing golden

The music and silence of a thousand desert twilights shimmering a mirage around us