Oceans Made of Love
by
Jennifer Angelina Petro

I started out
dancing
in atoms leaping
from one
animal breath
to another inhaled
swallowed
soused into
stomachs
then found myself
a seed
thrown from the wind
sprouted spread
palms withered
curled into
the ground and then
for a thousand
years a tree
near a pond
that soaked up
the moon, and
later surprised myself
into a grasshopper
nibbling leaves
springing from branch
to branch then
snatched and bent
in half by a crow’s beak
sometime
later hatched
from that crow’s egg
and flew
right into the raccoon’s mouth
grew a coat of coarse
fur scavenged
in trash and slept
under porches until
dead by rat poison
and after
awhile was born
through my mother
and father and here
searching all
reading all driving
walking eating sleeping
and I don’t remember
when you found me
and took me by
the hand
walked me over
currents of light
and sky
of bells ringing
soft as flowers
walking further
and closer
we merged one
into the other
and I started
dancing again
before your radiant
smile and deep
sea eyes
until I became
no more
me but you
the light
the ocean
composed
of nothing
but drops
made
of love and love
and love