Tossed

Tonight I
am tossed

by the great wave

It has thrown me

to where I

cannot tell

I know it

but I do not

know it

it has thrown

its waters into my mouth

and choked me
with its emptiness

I cannot fill it
with mud nor sand

but heavy silt

deposits in the branches

of the lungs and

brittle stars have taken

up residence until
I am as indistinguishable

as a shoal to a boat
When the tides change

my bones bleach like shells

poking through the sand

my heart cannot save it

nor can I fill or hold it.