2 Horatio

Pamela Hart
Carapace Pantoum
Water worn by sand I collect creatures
shelter diatom, fungi, sponge
wander while molting, my coat slipping off shore.
More scorpion than shell, I house waves
hold diatom and sponge
ocean washing my arthropodic structure
that wanders while molting, slipping
off shore, body become building.
I, washing ocean over such structure,
telson night, ruddering
even bodies which build offshore
their foam alive to flatworm fossil.
When my telson rudders the night
I coagulate while in-sheltering
foaming, alive to flatworm
tern skim displaced by wind
my shelter a coagulation
of water-worn creatures together
tern skim displaced by wind
I molt then slip off shore.
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