Ashes

 Following my recent impulsive request

that my ashes be flung

into the cove just below Blake's Drum

I began to wonder where

I might end up.

If  I dodged the jellyfish

and their stinging tentacles

in the Sunlight Zone

I might make it to Twilight

where octopus and sponges

would surely ingest some of me.

The rest dropping to Midnight

Where I could circumnavigate

the great wreck of the Titanic before falling 

into the freezing depths of the Abyss

and the clutches of the sea spider.

And finally if I made it,

or some of me anyway,

I would end up in the Trenches

Challenger Deep.

And after all this diving and dodging 

and conflicting messaging from my inner ear and brain

I'm thinking that a land burial might suit me better after all. 

Copyright 2026 Cathy Leonard