Conversation of Waves

E: Inspiration wakes up at night. It won't let me sleep.
I should be a bat.

C: I want to be the ocean.

E: Beautiful. Just think...
you could hold the moon.

C: And I could be free and violent...
with no consequences.

E: You could carry pearl and lava treasures
in your deepest places, fragile pieces
no one can steal from you.

C: I want to be the ocean.

E: You just were.



-Emily Engelhard & Carissa Ruiz



Note: The most beautiful poetry is conversation, because it's woven between a gathering of people.