Sites by the Ocean

Avra Margariti is a Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. Avra Margariti's poem, "Sites by the Ocean," was originally published in Short Édition’s October '19 Rendez-Vous.

There is a place by the ocean, a burial site for flesh and steel beasts where mast meets cross and mermaid bowsprit conspires with moss-choked stone angel. The insects falter in their primordial dance,missteps of appendagesand antennae.They nibble on salt-corroded metaland nestle in rot-sweet chest cavities.And there, below the ground,paying the baffled insects no mind,the ship and human boneswaltz on.

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