Orai | minor goddess of seas and ships
Inner revelation of truth
In Twilight water
The sphinx Orai rests
In the pewter surf
Immutable, unseen
She claws deeper as the dark
rock tears away
coastline shifts
visibly only from the
reflection of her third eye
at azimuth
At her flank
the serpent
Coils ready to strike
With venom both lethal and healing
She half blinks at horizon
as all creatures have swarmed
to seek survival
in her gaze
