- from a scientific
magazine----------
Before
My Life Began
- by Barbara Phillips
submarine archipelagoes fashioned like tapestries
this realm this coral eden
I look down and see my shadow
haunt dreamlike oddities
rimmed by shadows of rainforest
warm shallow oceans
the temperature of blood
I am hanging and drifting
a peaceful quiet moment in an oases
time is growing ever shorter
I look straight up through the calm surface
I see the white disk of the moon
dreamlike oddities haunt my shadow
weave in and out of wandering caverns
dark waters fall like dust
I am caught and pushed along a black slope
a shock wave hits
from my head to my toes
a bright mote I begin to rise
finally the return to the surface and light
shines
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