Blue Mermaid

Drying on dark, silted shore
A mermaid in drag sea weed
With blue tail and libido kept in store

White sand bleaches to the core
Briny salt spray, roon paps bleed,
still no sailor's lines or bait to score

Angry menstrual tides now pour
Shore breezes, hot flashes deed
To blue tail and libido kept in store

Sea nymph trapped in ribald moor
Barren, androgynous breed
With no sailor's lines or bait to score

Parched lips crustacean shells gore
Coarse fins peel, to snails' shafts cede
Blue tail and libido kept in store

Stripping grains of ancient lore
A sheltered, desiccate seed
With no sailor's lines, or bait to score
A blue tail and libido kept in store