I Was Sweating

when i woke up

i was sick. fatally ill.

i licked the cotton off

my lips and buried my

face in a moutain of

pillow. i finally drowned

in that sweat. it carried

me to the ocean where i

floated the atlantic.

The exotic salts of the sea

washed over me and a

porpoise nudged me with

his nose

water ran through my

nostrils, ears, and throat and

washed me clean.

a shark nibbled at my toe,

found me not to his like and

swam away.

the kelps of underwater abyss

swaddled me tightly in a cocoon.

barnacles attached themselves

to the heels of my feet

weighing me down.

when i reached the bottom

of the ocean floor

i grew gills and joined

my aquatic brethren

we floated and darted together

like pals long lost, long separated.