A tear drop rotates,
a heartbeat reverberates,
a starfish's an invertebrate
whose love
animates
emotions living in the sea.

Irritating to evolve,
a grain of sand could dissolves
in an oyster's shell
beneath the shoreline, somewhere between
earth and hell,
and in the fabric of time
rippled stretch marks tell
the tale of every life worth living
in a world comprised of liquid air.