The Lighthouse Mermaid Who Disdained Legs For A Heart~

here there be magik

shells

smashed open against the jetty

their pearl prisms

cracked

caught on the tail flip of a kraken

scaling a lighthouse wall

brought to shore by the mermaid

who'd stripped a thousand men of their wooden souls

and gave them boxes of chocolate hearts

to puzzle over at the onset of coralization;

he knows he will be crushed

in the pressure of her aquarium

but like all the other men and monsters before him

he conceded

that

this girl thing sure knew how to place

her barb

and reel them in

 

his consolation;

she would not reject his heart

 

mermaid added kraken to her scales

carrying imprints of love

long after the smears had vanished

 

she,

a soft beacon

they,

a composite of pressure points

in her memory's clay

 

 

 

 

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Reviews

[FireWoman]

A flip on the idea of "Rainbow Fish", who gave away his shiny scales to anyone (fish) who asked. Your tale shows expresses the idea that each experience colors us into who we are is exceptional.
Be it a siren or a monster, they turn human even for only a moment.

[Amber Betty Marie Child..]

it swims in her own unmattered sharp corners her intentions set
so sharp a corner, a shine with the splash
so soft its fluid, her seduction
but a hard point within which is revealed at the end
splash, love it

[Aidz]

Visual in all it's majesty, a fine tale woven in the nets of the fishermen who drink rum and sing shanties of the maiden n kraken

[SpokenWord]

She a master of fishing men but at least they didn't get their hearts rejected :) consolation? hmmm still thinking on that one. But yes I love this write it is beautiful and a story that could be told between relations of men and women today.

[Lilly Negoi]

"a composite of pressure points
in her memory's clay" - exceptional conclusion Selene! pressure points against a soft beacon revealing the true nature of otherworldly feelings...