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At Sea
by Lalita Noronha
Buoyed by memory,
we float a hundred feet beneath the sea,
arms spread wide to glide past years that
disappeared into a long good night.
Beating like soft hearts.
clouds of jelly fish rise.
Sea lions come to tickle our hands,
whiskers soft as hair.
Behind the kelp,
suspended like a question mark,
a sea horse stares
and dares us to forget.
And in this blue cosmos,
at least for one moment,
the skin of a sea-tulip blooms pink,
a hundred feet beneath the sea,
without corners,
without edges,
without ends.
Lalita Noronha's literary prose and poetry has been widely published—The Baltimore Sun, Catholic Review, Catholic Digest, The Christian Science Monitor, Crab Orchard Review, Passager, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Reed, Urbanite, Potomac Review—among others, and included in anthologies—A Thousand Worlds, An anthology of Indian Women Writers(Aurat Press), Great Writers, Great Stories, from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. (I.M. Press), Thy Mother’s Glass (BWA), Get Well Wishes (Harper Collins, San Francisco), Aunties: Thirty-five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother (Random House, Inc.), and 2001: A Science Poetry Anthology (Anamnesis Press). She received the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Fiction, 2002) and the Literary Short Story Award (1997, 2001.) Her debut collection of short stories, Where Monsoons Cry, was published in 2004.
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