in Oregon, by the sea // spoken word poem
Channel: marija leilynn artistry
Date: 2022-05-17

In Oregon, by the sea. 
/ by marija leilynn /

[la mar // Spanish for “the sea”]

To be kneeling beside the manner
of my name—
an endless, salty shade of blue.
How the thing 
holds the land in its mouth,
laps its thousand tongues at each 
shore / this rugged edge, 
foaming hungry over porous basalt. 

The glowing clementine sun
crowns eager 
at the Pacific’s spine, cooing, 
blushing the pale, cloudless sky
and light delights in anything bearing it.

Lord,
to let there be
like your first word on the world.
To know heaven is a stilled mind,
a needless prayer.