{"id":327,"date":"2025-11-07T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/37-2\/about-this-space\/?p=327"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:33:43","slug":"mermaid-wishes-250-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/37-2\/about-this-space\/mermaid-wishes-250-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid wishes- 250 words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"nfd-container  nfd-wb-headings__heading-1 is-style-nfd-theme-white wp-block-group has-white-color has-text-color is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"nfd-p-lg nfd-bg-primary nfd-rounded-lg wp-block-cover is-light has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:35vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-328 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/flounderingartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/OBX_Beach-1024x768.webp)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-70 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#83807a\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"nfd-container nfd-gap-md is-style-nfd-theme-dark wp-block-group alignwide has-background is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fa38c63a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff00\">\n<p class=\"nfd-text-xs nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase\">You shouldn&#8217;t have to share<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading nfd-text-huge nfd-text-contrast nfd-text-balance has-text-align-center\">Happy birthday, Lisa Brinkle<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">and today we ride. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The sign says don\u2019t walk on the dunes.&nbsp;&nbsp;We climb over them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;The sandy ocean paid as much notice to that sign as we do. The hurricane dared her to take back what was hers and she answered. She\u2019s back home now. Her white caps sway to shore in a vicious dance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The full moon is her partner who leads her in a foxtrot from east to west and back again. She doesn\u2019t storm off the dance floor tonight. She loves to dance. I watch her recital in time with my breath.&nbsp;&nbsp;It steadies the fear that she could swallow me whole as a snack before appetizers ,and finish every last bite of dessert without noticing an ache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I am inconsequential at her edge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">When I was a mermaid, I\u2019d have been able to dive in between their legs, and raise my backfin with their breath. My fin would draft me forward in their wake, towards whomever I need to be, wherever I want to go. 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