Anaerobe Poem by Richard Kenney

Anaerobe



Touch swollen tonsils:
gill slits.
Inside eyelid: slimelight.
Cheek: shark.
Here foreknown
I've dived
down dawnless
microbial snows,
phosphor blue to blue-
black, to black.
I fend
fish. I find
the saffron curb
of   the sulfur vent,
veering voiceless
again into the segmented,
swaying, white,
toothed tube-
worm, Time.

Richard Kenney
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: fish
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