say i’m at home catnapping no, i meant jogging past the park or i’m pulled over meet you at a bar called shorebreaks can cause serious neck, back and head injuries even in shallow waters even between relationships between floors on an elevator with no service i mean rip currents can be swept out to sea or yanked from atm swim parallel to shore turn around— avoid contact with sharp coral cross street to avoid a handful of guys or just one because ocean because hazards can occur even when waters appear calm
Shareen K. Murayama is a Japanese-American, Okinawan-American poet and educator. She’s a 2021 Best Microfiction winner as well as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. She promotes students' voices through a poetry club called the Po' Heads, spends her days as a surfing poet, and her evenings with her dog named Squid. Her art is published or forthcoming in Pilgrimage Press, The Margins, MORIA, Juked, Bamboo Ridge, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. You can find her on IG & Twitter @ambusypoeming.
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