Shore to Psalm
Lucianna Chixaro Ramos
shore
The meeting place of salt and land—or, that which it holds up.
-phore
Denotes a half word that carries its predecessors. At the shore, you double
up your membranes, the ones you’ve been carrying inside you
that try to consume you.
phare
Walk backward to see the beacon of light or the channel lit by it.
According to Masefield, this is the spark that exposes Guinevere’s thirst.
pharm
Field of product grown for you by you. Milk and blood, no longer produced
as necessities to their host bodies flows here in rivers. You drink.
You see the stems and stalks of plants not grown
for their blood but for their desiccation.
Even the saints’ letters roil in the ocean seeking shore.
St. Thomas removes the p, the u. He burns them for light, warmth.
Provenance: Submission
Lucianna Chixaro Ramos is a Brazilian-American poet. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Obra/Artifact, a journal of experimental poetry, and is currently an MFA student at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. Her work can be found in the journals New South, Otoliths, and The Collapsar. For more information you can head over to her website at www.luciannacramos.com.
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