“Because the Little Mermaid Wanted Something Else, Too”

“Because the Little Mermaid Wanted Something Else, Too” by Sara Moore Wagner begins:

Make this land a red garden,
round and hot as the sun on the waves,
fill it with blood poppies.
I mention it because I’ve grown to tired
of all this blue stillness,
the turning earth seems
silent to me, down here
where everything lives
or is already dead.
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