Water Woman Repost by Katie Ellison – Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:22 AM

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” And though there was a stone placed in front of his grave there are no visitors to that eerie place where he rests the sea crashing up on the bluff with long fingers pawing at the scar in the rock, clawing at the vault who in it his name was writ, swallowed by the sea In his living, he was a man of the sea victim to the untimely blow of the “Lady in the Water” who’s lustiness stole his soul from its fleshy vault built out of brine and scale a murky grave where she etched his body with hungry fingers The ship, as empty as the cask, on the ocean rests In the deep and inky depths, the skeleton yard rests the Lady charted his course into the belly of the sea, and held close the soul that writhed in her fingers forsaken and ravaged by desire, suffocated in the water she spins the soul into thread, seams the waves where on his grave she inscribes in seafoam the name writ upon the vault The Water Woman, succeeding the inscription of the vault, returns to ocean, to the skeleton yard and rests Her heart ill and shriveled – corroded by the sea, like a little bird within the web of her own fingers whose cage floods with fever like brackish water, and drowns eternally in a living grave. Inside her chest festers the sore of the grave The rocky ledge over the ocean that holds the vault Has no man with its confines where the inscription rests But in the crest of the wave, the frothy spray of the sea, he laps at the lip of the bluff with gnawing fingers Until another ship braves the Lady’s waters “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” And though there was a stone placed in front of his grave there are no visitors to that eerie place where he rests the sea crashing up on the bluff with long fingers pawing at the scar in the rock, clawing at the vault who in it his name was writ, swallowed by the sea Listen for the song that sings the ships to the macabre vault And on the sea, her fingers in the water, Will seduce the fool into ebb and flow, where her graveyard rests.

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