SALT INTO SALT
There is a lambda in the rock
A double landslide
from eye to ear
A forbidden conversation
with silence
as the waves massage my back
and my newly-grown jaws
Freedom
I cannot talk now
I am face-down in the water
resting my nannu’s ears
Freedom
dear freedom
this shift
this μεταμόρφωση
is wilder than I could
have ever imagined
I have never felt this strong
my body never so at home
in itself
yet the price, oh the price
has been
and remains
much too high
I have driven through purgatory
along Saint Michael’s line
without knowing it
and reached a freedom beyond dream
but somehow
I have lost it
at the very same time
Why do these tears of joy
hurt so much
Freedom is still worth it
not a wave of doubt
but all I now need
is to rinse
this double lambda
off my jaws
