I’m going to be
the first fish back in the sea
won’t stop swimming
this is your life

when I was a protozoan
I had no conscience
in the wars
before that
just a salted hunch

I’ll slough cells until I’m one
and shallow in the sun struck sea
to lap until I’m stone

KK

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poetry by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Steven Schroeder | images by Kit Kelen