Rebecca Elson




Like Eels to the Sargasso Sea

It was so easy,
Each first taste of salt,
Each coming to that sea
Where our bodies break
Like light
On the surface
Still

We are not what we were
When we began
In river mud.

It seems all voyage now
Between the poles
Of love 
And breeding

And something
We may never know:
Beneath us
Continents are slipping.