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Off the Ritcher

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By Tristin CrawfordPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Off the Ritcher
Photo by 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič on Unsplash

I can feel the moon’s gravitational beams like a tide and toe.

The earth quakes beneath my toes and it almost feel electrifying

Only this time I’m not defying gravity

The center of balance hold still and my gaze drops

The air feels like the radio frequencies static

Immobilized by my new fear of heights

A parachute opens and I’m hoisted into the air

The temperatures of the water numbs

Brisk lashes of wisping wind

The rain stinging

Couldn’t I have chosen a better day to rip the chord and descend into the ocean

The whispering wind wisps past me

I can hear the songs of the sirens as the water emulsifies me

The coast is twenty seven miles away now

Nothing but air and water for miles in all directions

I’m out here beyond the red algae

Red sky at night sailor’s delight

Red sky at morning a sailor’s warning

I can’t see at all as the rain falls

I dive as I feel the air filled in my lungs chelate

A drop in the ocean

Like the mermaid that dropped her purse is behind this

I’m swimming toward shore and the seaweed seeds

Mercury’s counter pull does not have me tred the surface

Which leads me to believe the depths only surface in the night

When the moon aligns with the terrestrial

Physically and mentally prepared

The power vested in me with my tools

Cans

The light wand

Mesmerized gps coordinate

An inflatable boat that descended from the chopper

Getting narced Cyanide cyanocobalamin

Cyanobacteria needs cans for seed samples

My new found fear now raging with adrenaline

nature poetry

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Tristin Crawford

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  • Manisha Dhalaniabout a year ago

    Amazing writing, Tristin.

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