Judith Cody
Aquarium ConfessionalIn a burst of creative
thirst upon discovering
four virgin walls
and her natural ink reservoir
she spurted black jets
of squid
hieroglyphics
swirled over
glass reflections
while she gagged dribbling
trails that
threatened to reveal,
“Alone, I am alone.”
to that first eye that
paused permitted itself
to cringe
from her mute liquid roar
blinding her world
with currents of
confessional glyphs,
streaked incoherence
of wild wet wondering
breathed and rebreathed.
Bio:
Judith Cody has lived most of her adult life in several counties of central California. The people, the ecology and nature's singular traits in California have been a critical theme in much of her poetry. Wet Drive is the latest poetry manuscript; it deals with the theme of the ocean mostly inspired by living in the Monterey and Santa Cruz areas. She has had poems published in an Atlantic Monthly anthology; Lost and Found Times; Stonecloud; Sequoia; and others.
