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Waterlogged (Ophelia)

by Vikki Owens

No fluid yet
to fill these lungs but
Im drowning.
Heavy water and it seeps
between the membrane
of flesh and air,
diaphram heaving,
lungs expanding into nothing
but cold
and contracting with
liquid.
Its an easy thing
this act of becoming
waterlilly
waterlogged....

02/12/2002

Posted on 02/12/2002
Copyright © 2024 Vikki Owens

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Jeanne Marie Hoffman on 01/26/04 at 09:46 PM

These words evoke a lot of images, I especially like the use of the waterlilly at the end

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