Foreign bodies flow
fighting tides

Orange disrupts water
- an urgent surge

cells flood,
engorge

insipid body
of water swells.

Tether-less bodies,
name-less bodies,

bodies without value
leak, seep

Buoyant bodies
lives in balance

pierce, puncture,
punch and penetrate

water rips
- surface tension.

Buoyant bodies bob
and sink and catch,

bob and sink and catch
an undercurrent pull.


Water marks
- skin puckles

place this body
in water

let these bones buckle
and this hair splay

place this body,
lay it down

mark this body,
score this body

cut this
turgid body. Let it come

through. Let this body
slip through

seaweed fingers,
whipped up whirlpools.

A strange precipitation - this awkward body,

let it displace
water, cause ripples

suspend it's weight
pierce and puncture

punch and penetrate.
Let this body leak,


let this body flow,
quick, slow, quick, slow

a tidal movement
a spectral wave

cells flood taut skin
osmosis, the taste of salt

saltwater bodies
pickled flesh adrift

sinks, swims, floats on by
Where is the language

that holds the weight
of flight? How

can a language hold
the weight of fear?

A constant search
for safe harbour.

Peeled skin
treads water

Ripples seep
through, leak through

code orange
bum rush

wave after wave
orange crests


a tsunami of orange
a human flow

a foaming consciousness
a terrible knowing

a bright dread
an undertow.