I play dead in the water.

I focus on my breathing
and let myself float.
My eyes closed with the sun
burning through,
red orbs, sloshing inner earths.
You kept swimming towards me
as my body drifted with the tide.

a wooden coffin with flames and a heart on the lid; the lid is pushed open and the inside is lined with red velvet. the coffin is floating in the ocean.

You reached only with your mouth
and planted quickly, sweetly.
I let you hold me,
still strands of hair stuck to eyelids.
In the ocean, on the edge of the earth.