I want to live by the ocean.
Trade city slurs for crashing
waves
and live on the edge
of mother’s fertile frame.
I don’t look in the mirror
much.
There is a cry calling out
to me
from somewhere
deep
within.
A plea,
carried over the water’s face,
skimming the spray of the surface—
a siren call within my soul,
a tension, begging
for my attention,
between seemingly solid, and not
so solid space.
As I breathe in, life
pools
and moves through, almost
releasing
as I edge to the bank on
the shore where I stand and
wait
for the waves
again.
Alicia Feizo is a Canadian writer and poet from Ottawa, Ontario, land which is recognized as unceded Algonquin Anishnaabe Territory. Her work largely focuses on the themes of trauma, the holistic nature of life, and what it means to be human. She finds inspiration in everyday experiences and draws from the well of her rich inner life and the connections that nurture her soul.
