WHY SPEAK OF OTHERS

To read other minds
that entwine your own
is to go beyond
the unfazed bones
in fishing for lost
flesh and bloody fins
which die and regenerate
in a subterranean pink
as a changing lobster
now banished from the sea
traces nearby a turtle egg
not interfering with nature
in a fetid feverish
tidal basin
spilling over
a relieved whisper
in a lagoon and Laocoon
from a faint wave sinking.