Diving for Treasure

Her fair freckled face

sparkled bright

as a carnival

buffed by the crush

of the

cornicled deep —  

she’d barked

her bare knuckles

on bevies of barnacles

waking a wreck

from

its coral-torn sleep.

An eerie unquiet

had scarred

all its treasure —  

and though she could see

it held wealth

beyond measure

she left it behind for the ocean to keep.