Bellow, and bid our father, the sea king, rise up from the depths,
fullfoul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam,
to smother this young mouth with pungent slime,
to choke ye,
engorging yer organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine
and can scream no more.

Only when, he,
crowned in cockle shells with slithering tentacled tail and steaming beard,
takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm
his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest
and runs you through the gullet,
bursting ye,
a bulging bladder no more,
but a blasted bloody film now a nothing
for the Harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon,
only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread emperor himself.

Forgotten to any man,
to any time
forgotten to any god or devil,
forgotten even to the sea.
For any stuff or part of Winslow,
even any scantling of your soul,
is Winslow no more,
but is now itself
the sea.