(Taormina) (Sicilia 21)

jellyfish were lapping at my feet
now – some sort of other pescado.
the entire class just arrived for a lesson!
this is the study of grottos
isola bella and the sea.
small beach, enough space for
an Italian man to grope his partners’ breasts openly
then for me to receive
my first jellyfish sting!

ah, how ignorant I am to think
my feet belonged in their habitat.
sweet revenge for my desires
of their beaching and pending death
so that I could learn of their bodies.

and how ignorant of it to think I am
simply a meal.
the sting of pain is how I
prove my comprehension.