Poetry Storehouse 2014 Anniversary Contest - Runner-Up Muscle Memory by Michael Biegner This ocean is a gray tidal yank, That speaks with a blurred accent of wild greens and blue – the yellow skin, the sad-eyed light, these make up the neurons of dark storms. This frame is a blight of opaque water and dying movement: go on and be brave. Sea birds carry word of a drowning in the canals, To all the lost faces, To the pink buildings. Helium lifts the mylar thinking. Salt drops are alive everywhere. Slog on, unfocused – to the place where breathing cannot be felt, where it is not the kind of music we can play by ear. Voice by Peter Danbury Film by Lori H. Ersolmaz About the Contest http://poetrystorehouse.com/manifesto/contest/
