Selected Poetry by Alicia Hilton
Photo Source: Unsplash Neptune’s Gnarly Hide A moray eel’s electric bite spiteful skin gouging inflicted by thousands of whirring urchin spines fitful chomps from stingrays barracudas hammerheads orcas and great whites even mermaids pitched fits flailed me with fins and fists protesting the pollution inflicted by homo sapiens plastics sewage oil spills toxic stew of caustic chemicals that fouled our pristine seas only octopi morphology cobbled my wrecked skin flesh and bones together once...