the silent siren

Written by Janice Peregrina

peer in, look through the porthole
at the ocean, vast as sin
the silent siren rises
from the black within

the water’s growing colder
her white hate arrests your breath
mouth agape, now screaming
screams a summons for your death

a million miles down below
beyond where men have tread
the siren takes another
who dared disrupt her bed