A Serge Takeover

This week I invited my friend Serge ♆ Neptune to share a poem. He’s given me this beautiful piece. This poem was previously published in The Lighthouse and can be found in Serge’s pamphlet These Queer Merboys

Enjoy

How We First Came To Land

human experience is one of

disease you wouldn’t remember us

first crawling out of water

panting for air in fierce

spasms the pain we knew

water no longer being our

mother giving up our gills

and growing porous bags to

breath swapping our one extremity

for two less silver and

more skin found refuge in

cracked lumps in the darkness

of the ground then behold -

our looks of wonder when

facing that first leap of flame

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Prompt of the Day

Write a poem of transformation. You can change yourself into anyone or anything you want. Or maybe you want to change someone else, or an inanimate object, or the environment. Explore your possibilities.

What causes the transformation? Is it genetic? A curse? Does it happen regularly? Be specific.

Try if possible to ground the poem with concrete items. You can list five items you have nearby and see if they can fit in your poem.

Have fun!