Written by Angela Du from New York City, USA ocean— keeper of the unwanteds mother of salt swallowed light whole cities of coral bleached white— brittle as ribs current, i command you carry bottle caps; treat them as pearls. somewhere beneath the atlantic. metal rusts into the reef. iron hits my tongue. rain gathers pulling itself inland. the ocean keeps giving. & even now salt in our blood waves folding themselves. endlessly giving but we keep ta