Nameless

I enter the ocean the same way I always do
with legs that wobble a bit on the rocks
in that human way legs do

and then as I lean forward
the massive robe of cold water
wrapping around me

I am suddenly no longer human
in that way where everything else
is categorized except us.

I am nameless under here
just another shape,

partly terrified
by the anonymity
of the sea

partly exhilarated
by being stripped clean
of words.