Mike Hession
Transatlantic
I picture the cable
along the grey sea floor
beneath the marine snow's
steady fall.
Moray eels and
cephalopods ghost
through dead space
beyond the touch of sunlight.
Suddenly,
I hear your voice,
bright between the
clicks and echoes,
stretched thin across
three thousand miles
of darkness.
The deep sea,
its chill pressure,
attends your guileless words.
along the grey sea floor
beneath the marine snow's
steady fall.
Moray eels and
cephalopods ghost
through dead space
beyond the touch of sunlight.
Suddenly,
I hear your voice,
bright between the
clicks and echoes,
stretched thin across
three thousand miles
of darkness.
The deep sea,
its chill pressure,
attends your guileless words.
Mike Hession lives in Manchester and has a personal poetry website at www.mikehession.supanet.com
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