The Ocean!

Now I know

why horses pull

Poseidon's chariot

not dolphins

Dolphins are too smooth too sleek, slipping in and out of the water 

moving between earth and sky with ease and grace

These cresting waves carve out the fabric

of space

countless hooves sculpt

the water

slash the air

flatten the earth

to make way for their God

they crash over me

trampling past and future to 

sand and salt and spray

pounding eternity into one moment of

shock

and joy

I leap 

to meet the wave and hang

suspended 

between earth and air

entirely 

at the mercy

of the sea

entirely

at rest