Death Love's Final Triumph Over Matter

Death, love's final triumph  over matter
a dreamless sea bereft of singing fowl
 where skating progeny as souls take flight
as tearing limbs merge with wings of light

A mariner's caw the crows tattoo
abreast of salt sea souls consumed
beneath the hungry veil Her vigils keep
in coils of foam the prisoners deep

Sailors in squawking marsh tongues
men of sea, wind and sky
Liliths of air, bone and thigh
enchanted oils and foul rank mud
a misting veil twixt earth and sun