Chatty sea
carry my wild eyes
over your melodic meandering clefts
swaddle me in depths and
vaporise graphite veins in the vastness
of all that billows beyond
humming honeyed tones of
Anything
Anywhere
Any time
I will be
forever bobbing
on your crayoned whispering peaks
ductile and rusting
until I am nothing
at all
Megan Howson lives in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, the largest city in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She grew up on the Kāpiti Coast, a beach settlement just north of the country’s capital city, Wellington. When Megan isn’t working in public health policy & research, she spends her time processing existential thoughts with a keyboard, creating excruciatingly detailed graphite drawings, bird watching in the Waitākere Ranges, and commenting on the weather.