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Diver

from Patterning by Martijn Duiven

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We sank to the bottom and noone noticed.
Who thought they wouldn’t hear
and who said they would call?
Remember when it was still raining
and noone else daring to brace the waterfall?
By now we’ve found
a home in the reef,
a bed of cold wet aragonite!

Now and again
we reach for the water’s edge,
hoping to find another one of our own.
We happened upon him.
He fled the nest and dove in head-first.

His head is as the most fine gold,
his locks are bushy, and black as a raven’s should.
But within his coat the flesh is dry and decomposed.
His entry wasn’t clean, his side split open like
the ripe past that we all drowned in

Most of the time
we go with the current,
craddling our raven until stuffed with water and heat.
We’ll make in his image
what was too dirty to accept.

The algae taught us how to breathe here.
From the reef we learnt how to grow.
My chest expanded to double its size
and somehow I managed to breathe for us.
I know somehow we’ll
swim to the shores that our child can call home
soon enough.

Most of the time
we go with the current,
keeping the air safe within me.
We sank to the bottom.
But we’re slowly crawling out.

And when it’s time
we climb out onto a busy street
and the confident line up where we meet.
What will they think of
the bird that left its father’s lap?
“Here is your saviour
the heavenly child, we brought him back.”

So fill up and sing again
Rise up, rise over us again
Fly from the beach side.

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from Patterning, released November 9, 2010

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