Surface, by Peter Munro
Swept among seas that walk downwind, beaks and feathers wheel to hook and pick. Skimming low, fulmars heel and spin speed. Their twines knot the world to its quick. I learn to listen with my skin. Gusts kiss me, whispering their cold. Caressed in tempos that whitecaps kick, rust scours my vessel, fills her holds. She presses into a surface nicked by birds feeding where salt unfolds. Fulmars