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The Price of Voice
She came to the witch with salt in her hair,
and offered her song for a pair of legs.
"Three breaths of the sea," the old one said,
"and your voice goes down to the kelp and the bones."
The mermaid agreed, for the shore was a dream,
and the moon was a lantern she'd never once held.
So the witch took her tongue like a pearl from its shell,
and sealed the bargain with a cough of brine.
Now she walks on the sand where the gulls never sing,
her feet full of fire, her silence a bell.
And the sea keeps her voice in a locket of foam,
waiting for the day she is willing to return.
Tide-Glass Vigil
Beneath the waves, she grows so still,
her tail a shadow on the sand-bright hill.
She sees the lanterns, warm and far,
and longs for footsteps, where the lights are.
The gulls cry out their hollow song,
the foam drags pearls where she belongs.
Yet every dusk she climbs the stone,
and gazes shoreward, all alone.
Dawn Tide Dance
Pale light spills across the sea,
A mermaid spins, wild and free.
Dolphins leap in silver arcs,
Their laughter ringing through the marks
Of rippling foam on sapphire waves,
Where sunrise kindles golden caves.
She twirls with them in joyous flight,
Their rhythm sewn with morning light.
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