This Repeating Dream Is Hell Poem by Sami Gjoka

Look out! I cry an awful,
Roaring scream
Seeing him above the water,
Like a dream
But the tide is getting closer,
Fast and mean
Unpredicted on his shoulders,
Unforeseen;
Thrusting him and sucking him
Under there,
To reap him limb by limb—
A nightmare;
To that cold that grows colder,
To that scene,
In and out of the water,
For his glean
Throwing claims and throwing oysters,
To his bag,
And then back, above the water,
And then back
Sliding deeper, sliding longer,
Like an eel
Oh, this tricky scene of torture—
Knelling bell
For death’s banging to leave opened
Gates of hell
And thence to be chased by monsters,
Everywhere.