Hy-Brazil

The island glitters

in the middle of the ocean,

an arcane city

built on a living form

submerged at the deepest

part of the Atlantic,

a green star flickering,

only to vanish and reappear

somewhere else.

 

I have seen

its other side

—the dark side.

It moves along the ocean bed,

occasionally

coming up for air.

 

When you are pregnant,

so is every other woman

you see, or so it seems.

When someone you love

is afflicted, you see pain

everywhere.

 

Hy-Brazil is an island in Irish mythology

that appears and disappears.