Athehna

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                         Blue wash              fantasy
of shells                through the violence
 
             of ancestry      a pale
                                                       and pinkish skin
now

armored silver                                             
in her strands                   
coated                                                          
piercing                                
watching over   with force     and judgment
the thin            
shiny
                  fish

and we are                                                  
glancing against                        
sheathing                       

the watery           
flesh                                           
still
vulnerable                                             
pearl                                                                       

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