Uncanny Is An Ocean

My fingers are interlaced/between sharp interstices/of the Shark's teeth/atop his marine hide/my legs risk splitting/you are almost visible/the shore is a space/beside the sky/edging the moon/I can imagine you/and your expression/it is disdain/it is just inside of/a smirk and disbelief

If it were not for the water's foam trimming my ankles, I could fully recall that feeling I had. You said I scared you. Not the first time I'd heard that. Just outside my lips the muscles stretching both sides, in either direction. I bit the too smooth skin rimming my inside lip and smiled inside my head. You were crying. The almost invisible smile like a stifled funeral chuckle.

Her fingers are interlaced/within warm pockets/of my teeth/atop my dermal armor/her legs negotiate hugging/he is all but invisible/the shore is a space/beside the next/edging the other/she tries to forget you/and your embrace/was embalming/it was just outside of/a trap and home

If it were not for names decorating my memory, I could nearly forget the faces they had. You were among those faces, the embraces, the traces of exchanges that added up to very little after long and short whiles alike. Funny to page through the albums of personal space before owning individual time. A give-away like "Price Is Right" and "Let's Make A Deal". I'm a lazy negotiator which was apparent until suddenly, and always, it wasn't.

The hunting is good/for interested game/juicy, viable, risky/traipsing boundaries/borders to be teased/to be earned/to be violated/devoted exchanges/determining another's/interest in oneself/circumspect/selfish as shellfish/fearing fresh air/auspices/of personal space/privacy protected

A firecracker's big, bright burst inhabiting hot balmy air or an extensive drag race perpetuated by a solid steel chassis creature: searching, seizing forced, buried, discovered, precipices wrought before instincts. And for what if nothing outside of bursting or dragging? Repeatedly and sometimes repeating, often patterns. Funny and flattering to bestow and be bestowed upon the emotion of another that really will never truly vacate individualized confinement.

The appearance of/disadvantage from one/species to another/actually a construct/a specialized mode/operation that begins/without necessitating/conclusion/make me a woman/mold me a Shark/donate his teeth/dedicate my fingers/outside of someday/inside of tomorrow/a compass that belongs/shoreside/a fancy reservation/made south of advance/elicit a wave/ride my back unseen/unheard/only felt/by a grip/confidently singular/comfortably aware/of generating motion/perpetuated as if dually/uncanny ocean/retreat for lovers