The Act of Water
By Duy Quang Mai
Published 1 January 2021
& we thought american, european atlantic
is the best option
– in each litre of sea salt, there
are foreign dreams
to reap
where mud-water hasn’t
climbed
our thighs
but it pulled down,
so low our last
inhalation warped
into marbles,
rolled
back to earth
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