Thoughts of An Ocean Nymph: Mortal creatures. Alas, they’re everywhere, these brief beings of warm body or cold. Longest-lived ones dwell in the dry: green of lung and blood of sugar water. To cherish them is a fair diversion but in the end, tedious. Preferable to play on the margins of ocean and land. Where we meet the naiads, where their thin twisted waters smash and riot with ours.

weary shoreline rocks
reveal aeons of nereids’
violent laughter

[KB Nelson is a Canadian, Rhysling-nominated poet whose poems have appeared in over two dozen journals. Her chapbook Muse of Natural History was published in June 2021.  She currently lives, writes & hikes the beaches & forests  on the unceded territory of the Sechelt First Nation  on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast.]