Siren Song by Clio Davidson-Lynch
The sea is full of stars, my love. Swim out to me. Don’t fret the weight of your wet clothes or fear the cold; just hurry past the sandbank and the breaking waves until you lose the shore. I’ll show you the sky in a glass, darkly, and the sunken constellations that struggle to map the drowned emptiness below. I’ll sing for you, sweetling, and bring you down and down until we’ve found the blank and black expanse behind the stars. And when you see how small you are, and swallow down your pride like saltwater, I’ll swallow you whole.
Clio Davidson-Lynch is a writer and trainee librarian based on Gadigal country in Sydney, NSW. When she isn’t busy learning the arcane secrets of the Dewey decimal system, she enjoys writing prose and poetry that skews towards the unsettling and strange. You can read her work in Booker Magazine, Leaf Pile, Baby Teeth Journal and The Heroines Anthology.