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The Corrosion
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The Corrosion

Christopher Hivner

He sat in a rocker,
perfectly still,
stealing the chair’s usefulness from it.
She lay on the couch
across the room,
an ocean ebbing and flowing between them,
the waves of her infidelities
slapped his face,
burning his eyes with salt,
but he would not allow tears
to fall.

She rested on her island,
ease in her deceit,
sleeping the sleep
of a fallen angel.
Water laps at her feet,
glistening off of silver flesh.
Lovers leap from white-capped swells
planting briny kisses
to her excited breasts.

Shark’s teeth float
in a lost chest
of Blackbeard’s gold,
washing up to the husband’s feet.
And the nymph laughed,
until he cleaned each doubloon
with saliva
from deep in his throat.
She felt each spit
like acid on her skin,
rubbing away the corrosion.

Sliding from her perch
into the water
she swims away,
against the current
while her husband counts his gold.
Like leeches
the lovers suckle to her,
dragging her down,
filling the water with blood.
Her screams
gurgle through the waves
to her husband
who rocks in his chair
waiting for the tide to come in.



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