Two Shipwrecks Holding Hands at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Timothy Froessel

Poetry, prose poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

You’ll see a lot of things when you can see nothing but the ocean. Below you, there will be the octopus who can’t quite master playing bass guitar. The fisherman obsessed with skipping rocks will pass by you as he ventures out to sea once again. The sound of some sailor begging to a cartoon god to let them become a goldfish will surround you. You’ll feel a million shipwrecks thirst for your buoyancy.

Two Shipwrecks Holding Hands at the Bottom of the Ocean takes you through literal and figurative sinkings. For every plummeting vessel, there’s a child losing innocence and learning nostalgia. It’s not all doom and gloom, though. These 22 nautically preposterous poems only want to wrap you in a wave’s blanket and give you a teddy bear to hold to your heart.

Timothy Froessel (he/him) is a writer from New York. He's currently a poet, essayist, editor, and writing consultant at Western Connecticut State University. When he's not spilling a rough draft all over a page, he can be found watching the Islanders and Mets, or looking at cute pictures of bears on the internet.