Is this by Sappho Durrell?
-s.d
I have been gestating the sea all this while
you have been spitting stones into dirt-edged puddles
trying to cast a spell to draw me out with the radiating ripples
you know you can make me come but not cry
out underneath harvest-wet weather
a portion of heaven has been set aside for you
and it goes bad on your plate, surrounded with congealed bone-grease
you would tell the elders that i plucked your tendons for my lyre
and tore away your caul even before birth
but you always confuse me with your mother though i
never let your swollen head pass between my sacred thighs
even knowing stairs and heat as well as i do
how the temperature drops as the banister walks you down into a basement
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