Brine-Drunk: Cento

Courtenay's Corner

A cento is a poem formed entirely from lines from other media.

Drunk on the brine, my lover
is a large pot of apocalypse soup.

Beauty is a sad-mouthed, despair
-eyed albacore. The throbbing of

constellations wrecked upon my mind.
I am overboard for this metamorphosis,
ready to be raptured.

[Natalia Diaz’s When the Beloved Asks, “What Would You Do If You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?”]

Published by Courtenay's Corner

Courtenay Schembri Gray is a Northern writer of the weird, the eerie, and the macabre. She is the author of The Maple Moon newsletter on Substack: https://themaplemoon.substack.com / Twitter: @courtenaywrites

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