A Harmonic Deluge
by Jacqueline Anne Young

words pour forth from nimble

fingers pitting the page with

mathematical waves dancing Ichthys

at periodic intervals

torrent me with action verbs announcing

a melody in heat

timbre me with your cosines and your

Pythagorean colors

submerge me in your saltine waves where

whales play hide and seek using

the slow beat flow of echolocation

a kind of Beethovian symphony where

flotsam conducts and

time exists only in the divergence of

oceanic crust

it’s dark down there where jetsam

treasures lie under layers of

shipwrecked sediment

push me further into your subterranean depths

where the pressure to fit in gets stronger

the deeper you go

lick me like the wind barrels your skin

haunt me with your tacit rhythms then

spit me out when i can no longer bear

to hold my breath

 

JACQUELINE ANNE YOUNG is a working writer living in Orange County, CA, having just graduated from San Francisco State University with a bachelor’s in creative writing. She enjoys photo booths and sneaking into movie theaters. She misses the San Francisco fog yet is enjoying herself in the warm waters of Southern California. Her pug’s name is Nietzsche.

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