Mermaid

I want to be a mermaid
Or a woman born of the water
who sings cryptically and vengefully to men who will not remember -
Who raises her arms to pull locusts into the deep

I am a woman with rabbits darkening her eyes and bringing her messages
Whose men serve her pancakes and do not remember.
I wear shoes when it rains.

But I will not divorce my friend
I will walk barefoot under an umbrella in the rain
The colors will gain courage and walk with us,
and maybe claw us like they are birds of prey.

I will dance better.
My bigger mistakes will go away,
And the locusts will not

cannot

follow us

On our street of sharp color.