by M. Stow11
and what it is good to leave alone.
Triggering and conserving morphological bodily-change.
Reproducing-swelling, fattening, hardening, sensing.
Thwarting larger-predator, with exaggerated swollen shape, hidden daylight poly-chrome multi-colour;
mopping-up nightblind sightless-prey, before even knowing there is a scavenging predator there.
Jellyfish, soft beaked octopus,
sharp beaked feeding intelligent squid, hood-headed mantle eight ganglia legged,
paddled through warm waters, specialized segmented octopus, charged and gored.
Waiting,
sitting haunched, hunched tension sprung and suddenly pouncing horn toothed.
Mineral calcite depositing around articular tissue connected parts.
Load and shear stress built layer, cementing tidelines.
Diametric building rods, layering fine thread lacunae matrix,
pourous spongy bony interstices attached to gulping mouth and letting, feathery jaw-boned hinged, mouth opening body.
Feeding,
foundational each droplet supporting each one and other grouped together;
floating upwards towards the apparent source of light.
Turned over to feed from the surface algic and plankton mite,
massed ridden plains, above the wrack.
Between towering branching bladder wrack, remaining tiny vesicules, twitched and flitted,
phototrophic light eating bugs, numeric-algorithm genetic-mutation,
slowly-exercising hovering on the underwater waves.
Thread, fuelled storing and transporting, propelling reciprocating engine muscle.
Translucent on pellucid ocean film emulsion, pocketing and releasing,
exhaustive rapid and explosive energy, charge and exchange.
Periscopic fish frog-eye, opening out, into clear ocean sky light shading glistening,
facing open-mouthed, backswimming along.
On the open pelagic sea, spare flesh flapping, above the surface, as a sail. Floating, fins running along the surface, blown with the tail wind, headed, boating across the depths.
Jellyfish root tentacle feeding below, consuming morsels on sticky tentacle,
pushing out of the waves, taking from the breeze, above.
Moving-fast, into the air...
Surfing the overwave, and diving back, down into the depths.
Under the surface, bloated ball pumping up, like a balloon.
Floating back-upwards, toward the surface.
Emptying, to feed, to dip under again, and flipping over,
before flippering away into now hidden depths.
Waterproof, heat and light-trapped head to tail bony resilin iridescent-scales,
counter-shading texture and colour, grey and blue and brown shadow,
and blended retained deposited, calcite back-rodded and ribbed-over protective chest-cavity; surviving over ridged crusted head carapace skull-case.
Fleshed and teress dressed, locks and curls,
Mane coat, fur wool and pelt, follicled-over;
flat fisheye, rolling over, travelling across the soft-skulled head from side to side...
ossified, flexible rodded cartilage,
down to the balancing flicking and flapping tail.
Spiny-ray finned flatfish,
ray-fin mudskipper, gulper paddle bow-fin;
angler-minnow piranha-seahorse,
rivering freshwater salmon trout boned,
fin braced skeletal fish, skidding and skating through the groundwater.
Dorsoventrally,
undulating forward-motions,
compressed into the domain.
Spreading,
pectoral-fins, gliding in the concave watery rear-margins.
Walking-surreptitiously,
on extended lobe-fins through underwater sunken cave; crossing-along canorous-canyon valley-floor.
In the still flickering darkened-depths,
features and movement apportioned,
apportioning dim-images back.
Linked and coincidental projection,
proximal in time and space,
corresponding, congruent, attenuating retained.
Channeled,
indexical-codex light-image:
-Copy, and checking, repeat-reflex response....
Returned,
through fibred cortex, to and from blood swelling, bulging, enclosed and front-facing ambergris.
Enjoined, whole transmitting and receiving, unctuous,
plastid saponaceous waxy glucose proteinous brilliantine-lobed,
internal-mapping, and re-mapping screen.
Drafting, and re-drafting, connected to each inwardly attached;
projected-component part, gathering-news, and building-materials from the inner-most surrounding,
to the outermost.
Fed, from the exterior waters, poisoning exiting,
repeat pattern-mutating,
changing and altering ecological-space.
In-response, to sunfed photosynthetic fungal algic bloom,
tacky-scummy pastural plankton-feeding.
Opening, in distended dilation, fragmenting-fission;
and fusing-together, sponging network-connectivity;
messaging neural-signalling,
extending-across crusty interstical-surface.
Breathing in tractor and extractor grill-grating.
Sucking in through light and mineral water,
filtering-plates, flicking hinged grill-bars, controlled-consumed separated-gasses jet squirt propelled, buoyancy sac.
Opened and closed, to sink and rise.
Light-spotting, piecing together points, directed through optic electric nerve Large-blurry and stationary-object; fast-moving rock and plant feeding...
Filtering-out,
draughts of mineral and metallic water,
crystal rock seasonal plankton, and algic bloom.
Along the food chain, adrift with the swirling current,
taking in, and powering locomotoring, grazing on algae,
snipping at green and purple plant-leaf,
imbibing bubbling and tanning solar rays.
Secured under an alluring, reflective underwater surface,
through sectioned opening pore, ciliate feathered shellaced fur, shifting and sifting gilled-vessel nibbling, and drawing-in, sweet-savouring,
gulping crunching, drinking and feeding, quick seeing, deliberately searching-out.
Through coloured light and movement, caught in a lighted shaft,
rising on the current, as if tranquilised in amazement.
Rotating spiracle-wheeling spidery-legged rock and leaf mite, tremulous in disbelief.
Caught, trapped on the wave, part bitten or snapped off.
Snapped-off, in collision with a rock, or larger gaping gap, prey or rival predator, attempting, competitive intentional, to-harm, to-injure, to maim;
to-kill; or snagged-on, ragged-rock edge,
clumsily, accidentally released,
escaped the wound sealed-over already jellied, regenerating-somatic, regrowing scar-tissue.
Chancing of varying-sequence, regenerated, anew from the original, or lived without.
Blindly amputated, flippering away, boneless toothless jawless mouthing-sucker,
brittle-arm, bony, and toothed with such rapidity...
once-accustomed, with rhythmic, phonic-chromatic,
controlling input and output,
with timing and tactics, skill, and lucky-chance.
6. The Vibrant-stage.
The vibrant stage-set, directed and redirecting...
changing unknowing chance and known choice.
To dart toward, or hide away from, known treat or suspected threat.
Pattern-recognition resistant-cell surface,
blood carrying pathogen antigenetic body consumed...
protection of the w
hole, skin flora non stick coating,
outer and inner repelling potentially harmful bacteria,
chemical signal response immunity trapped,
and transporting-phage engulfed,
red blood-iron removing, vampirous-piercing,
and sucked-out the contents.
Digesting re-product-excreted,
removing or procreating neutered, flicked and jumped.
Large spiky and blotched mass, attached and moving fast flared.
Like a comets tail, magic arrow fighting-off intrusion.
Between the warming, and hidden-rocks,
fish-globular clusters farming growing-moulded,
in-waterproof respiring shelless ovulated...
Consuming, bundled soft-fibrous specked creamy-white light-reflecting, and retaining-container.
Pith-clear, speckled-brown glaireous-innards,
linked-chains twisting and curling together;
yellowy food-ball wrapped, and sucked-into proto-stomach,
to-feed, the growing embryonic larvae,
to feed and pupate butterfly fin-winged.
Warming, sticky tangled networks;
emulsified-fats moving coagulating-fluid,
through swelling fibrous strands spiral-threaded.
Collected,
gathering and joining up ligament twitching,
soft framed structure enclosing imbibed.
Silver white and golden-brown.
Dried-round, yolk-milky egg-seed, cracked-opening feathery,
spread fan-tail, light-striking sensory nervous-impression.
In the meager-light, poisonously engorged, roamed amongst slitted wriggling, air chambered-bell,
jellied-sac, enclosed, swollen unwrapping...
greater variating and larger speckled and stretched striped pulsating form.
Completing cyclic feeding energetic neural net charged across high-temperature,
molten, amorphous cooled-strand, carbonate dioxide-atmospheric.
Substrate-breathing
feeding nutritioning energy. With increased-energy,
controlling, increased dividing split population.
For growth and mobility,
dissolving, renewing, to muscle powering along,
reaping the benefit, into the next spawning.
Disappearing, flat and lifeless, running along the bottom; to take off glide and to swim, upwards-again, into, and toward the light. In shallow
