Bubbles

It would be more fun to say
my telephone rests

on the floor of the sea,
but, it’s actually only a few feet down

at the bottom of an aquarium.
Still, I’m not going after it. Let the gold-fish

have it …poems cause me all kinds
of trouble. Let the little diver

find it, float her by it,
abandon words and tell

the mermaid, in silver bubbles,
what he means.

–June 7, 2019