Land Lubber
John Frost
for Fowler, Pound and other poet philosophers

digging in the dirt
attached by the gravity
of your mass
of flesh
of water in a skin bag

you carry
a portable sea
dragged by the moon
light tides pull
at your liquid gut
of home
in the waves home home
in the waves

you carry water
to the ground and ocean-less
death where worms dream
of shrimp
and you dry.

J. Frost