The fine, white sand's submerged under a few feet
of tropical blue green: snowy-clean ripples in tandem,
below my bare feet, with gently dancing shallow waves in the
baking sun overhead, casting scintillating, lacy networks
of brilliant, reticulate light that silent disperses in the
cool quiet below.
Gentle giant with bumpy, gray-rubber spinal ridge
and narrowed, leery eyes, mutely cruising like a
magic carpet flying through this improbable middle-world.
You never have to return to a dry space crowded with
receipts and fax machines and hold buttons and jittery customers
kept too long away from anything that remotely resembles real life
at all. In my next incarnation I'd be more than content to be
your kind of bottom-hugging detritus feeder myself.
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Graceful indeed! Though we can only wonder what thoughts or, more likely non-thoughts and feelings linger in those flat reticulate nerve complex. These things have no expression, no faces nor mimic or voices to scream. They could be ecstatic or in grave suffering and yet all we will see is the grace and beauty of its outer skin.
ReplyDeletei've been advised they have fishy brains, not too well designed for abstract thoughts, but i'm uncertain. try piers anthony's omnivore, orn, and ox for another opinion. highly recommended.
ReplyDelete"Ripples in tandem." You certainly know how to weave words together to make a nice impact. :)
ReplyDelete"Gentle giant." Aww!
I liked the ending in particular. It would be nice to get away from reality once in awhile and float at the bottom of the ocean.
although not in phase, ripples are waves in sand arising secondary to the waves on the surface of the water above. i love this shallow-water picture, with the refracted light bent into a reticulated net a few feet down on the sea floor.
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