Sweet Lullaby

Written by Rebecca Carlyle
Photographed by Joseph Nicolas Duarte
Model: Megan Holder

It rocks me slowly, occupying

my crevices,

everything is soft here, the touch, the sound, the feel.

I am a blemish in this

pulchritude.

It pains me to suggest

I don’t belong

in this salty embrace. Fingers floating on the surface,

I linger in the swell,

and drift.