Mary Oliver Invaded My Dreams
written by: Marie C Lecrivain
I had a dream
I was on a beach
where a clutch
of baby sea turtles
emerged from their nest,
all in a hurry
as they climbed over
one another to escape
the shifting sand
and egg shell shards.
One of them stopped
by my feet, looked up
at me with big sleepy eyes,
and said, “A grave and a womb
are pretty much the same thing,”
then followed its siblings
into the sea. This revelation
filled with admiration
and envy, as turtles
are another kind
of being altogether.
With a life that can span
centuries, and in tune
with each wave,
they’re able to
descend to depths
I’ll never reach.
Marie C Lecrivain is a poet, publisher, and curator of two literary blogs: Dashboard Horus: A Bird’s Eye of the Universe, and Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women’s Art and Literary Journal. Her work has been published in bottle rockets, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Gargoyle, Nonbinary Review, Orbis, Pirene's Fountain, and many other journals. She's the author of several books of poetry and fiction, and editor of Ashes to Stardust: A David Bowie Tribute Anthology (2023 Sybaritic Press).
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- Mary Oliver Invaded My Dreams - November 9, 2023
