– Salton Seas –
Our love has dried
with the waters of this Salton Sea,
leaving behind bleached bones
and the scattered remains
of loving homes
that we have shared
in better times.
For all the love
Iʼve stolen up to now,
maybe itʼs what I deserve,
maybe itʼs how I wanted it to be.
Once sunken deadweight
in that brine of bitter tears,
I will choose to rise up,
to walk away from here,
to travel onward
and tread on some other
even more distant shore.