By Megan Cartwright

Six-headed Scylla sets men six feet under,
slides her twelve feet twelve thousand feet deep,
dandling oxygen just out of reach.

Lungs like bellows, they bellow –

below, we echo, seaweed tendrils reaching,
seeking. Below,
we echo.

Titanic toll. A Titan vanquished.
Sardine tin capitalists sink,
brains blooming green phosphene stars.

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Megan Cartwright is an Australian author and Literature teacher whose work has featured in Contemporary Verse 2, Cordite Poetry Review and Island Magazine, among others.