Belly up, it is a silent question:
wonder, as you please, take a look.
Smell. The fish. Rot.
Palm up, it is a silent question:
give, as you please, take my hand.
Offer yours. Contemplate.
The white plastic glove,
washed ashore in winter's storm,
rests on a bed of seaweed,
palm open. Dulse is running
through its fingers like an iron rosary.
Karin Molde, one foot in the North Sea near Hamburg, Germany, another in the Atlantic, Galway, Ireland. She has published in numerous magazines, both print and online, and in anthologies, the latest being 13 Waves. Poets from the German Stanza (2024). Her chapbook “Self-Portrait with Sheep Skull” was published with Moonstone Press, Philadelphia 2023.
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