I walk through a familiar alien land.
The water glows, houses grow,
there's not anything to never know.
The center of the land is the four chambered cave.
The four chambered cave is the castle of thunder.
It sits due south from the island of wonder.
The island of wonder, has all of every type of weather.
The four chambered cave is tattered and weathered,
because the Island and the cave are permanently tethered.
The tether stretches across the dark and salty sea.
The dark and salty sea has brined these sandy beaches for years,
the dark and salty sea, also called a sea of tears.
My bed is made softly in a giant purple flower
the peaceful waterfall is where I go to shower,
there is no need for weaknesses here,
because there is no need for power.

Art and Poetry of Jessica Talley, U.S. Coast Guard Veteran, Mother of 3, with ancestral lineage to Gorée Island of the the coast of Dakar, Senegal.

Juneteenth, 2020