rest cure

by Jessica Holland

I am sick 

upon a seaside cliff; 

or so I am told. 

The sea creeps and calls

 to me 

from my 

bedside window. I long for 

its jagged crest 

to sink 

its teeth 

into 

the roof. 

To be 

buried 

beneath 

the sand.

Jessica Holland is a recent University of Iowa grad and has been published in New Moon and New Horizons magazines. They are an Iowa based poet and writer with a passion for the weird and speculative. You can find them in a hammock somewhere in the woods.